Sentences with phrase «work by african»

The Cape Town exhibition presents work by African artists within Africa — many of whom are still based in their country of origin — as opposed to working in the context of the diaspora.

A show organized around the Souls Grown Deep donation is being planned by the Met, and next fall, at its new Met Breuer building, the museum will host a retrospective of the work of the highly sought - after contemporary painter Kerry James Marshall, making for perhaps the most concentrated focus on work by African - Americans in the museum's history.

The Guaranty Trust Bank partnership with Tate supports a dedicated curatorial post focusing on African art held by Elvira Dyangani Ose, an acquisition fund to help Tate enhance its holdings of work by African artists and a project programme from 2012 — 2014.

The show, while predominantly of work by African - American artists, has several other whites, as well as gay artists of various ethnicities.

«They're all aware that they have been behind the curve in supporting, collecting and exhibiting work by African - American artists and they're all making tremendous expenditures to make sure there's more equal representation.»

The university's embarrassing loss eventually enabled the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, a large museum and research center in San Marino, Calif., to acquire its first major work by an African - American artist.

The broadening and deepening of our collection in the area of work by African American artists through the support of the members of the Alma Thomas Society is good for our museum, our audiences and our community.

The Newark Museum was among the first major museums to build a collection of work by African - American artists.

First co-founding Young Hoffman Gallery in 1976 and then splitting off as her eponymous Rhona Hoffman Gallery in 1983, Hoffman became known for her discerning and pioneering eye - introducing to Chicago conceptual and minimal artists like Sol Lewitt, Donald Judd, Vito Acconci, and Gordon Matta - Clark; giving women artists such as Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, and Jenny Holzer solo shows early in their careers; and foregrounding work by African - American artists, including Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems - and currently Derrick Adams, Deana Lawson, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn.

Many institutions also acknowledge the glaring absences in the art - historical canon, and some are actively making efforts to revise the history of American art to include work by African - American artists.

Scanning the magazine's archive reveals that the solo appearance of work by African American female artists is particularly rare (Ellen Gallagher 2004; Kara Walker 2007).

The latter painting, by Charles E. Porter, introduces this exhibition's greatest, unstated achievement: a century and a half of work by African - American artists.

Like all of the work by this African - American artist, the painting encourages an epiphany: Every block of color is different, with its own shape and proportion, as well as its own hue, surface and relationship to the whole.

Puma SE sponsored Mr. Coetzee's show, «30 Americans,» featuring work by African - American artists of the last three decades.

A lot of them are starting to acquire work by African - American artists that they had not acquired 30 or 40 years ago.»

«Power: Work by African American Women From the 19th Century to Now,» at Sprüth Magers.

Thanks to a new partnership, the only thing needed to see some of the BMA's collection of work by African - American artists is an Internet connection.

One such initiative is a partnership with the Google Cultural Institute to bring some of the museum's work by African American artists to people around the world.

Identity Shifts: Works from VMFA Since the museum's founding in 1936, VMFA has actively collected work by African American artists.

«The museum acquired its first work by an African American artist in 1944 when Leslie Garland Bolling's 1935 sculpture Cousin - on Friday entered the collection.

Smith's work is included in Four Generations: The Joyner / Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art book that is considered one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary work by African and African Diaspora artists.

Two solo exhibitions at Los Angeles area museums this summer present significant bodies of work by African Americans whose artistic careers have blossomed in this city.

In 2015, the Obamas hung Thomas's work Resurrection in the Old Family Dining Room in the White House, making it the first work by an African American woman to be shown in the building's public quarters as part of its permanent collection.

Hearne features only work by African - American artists in her gallery, which opened in 1988.

In the exhibition, abstract paintings and sculpture from the 1960s through the 1980s by Barbara Chase - Riboud, Martin Puryear, and others show a desire to balance cultural and artistic identities, challenging the idea that work by African Americans should be viewed in primarily racial terms.

Instead, the work by African - American artists that I have seen, as radical, as progressive, as coherent and eloquent as it is, remains unfortunately «nationally self - centred» [if I can use such a term] insofar as it scarcely attempts to connect with African communities living in Europe.

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The High also deepened its holdings of work by African photographers with the addition of three portraits by South African artist and LGBTQ activist Zanele Muholi (born 1972), four prints by Seydou Keita (Malian, 1921 — 2001) and four photographs by J. D. «Okhai Ojeikere (Nigerian, 1930 — 2014), who is known for his series documenting the diversity and evolution of Nigerian hairdressing over a 40 - year period.

The space, as an interview with Goode Bryant in the accompanying sourcebook reveals, showed only work by African American artists until 1977.

It was a small retrospective of her photographs and it was one of the first times I'd seen contemporary work by an African - American woman.

The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary work by African and African Diasporan artists, and Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art draws upon the collection's unparalleled holdings to explore the critical contributions made by African Diasporan artists to the evolution of visual art in the 20th and 21st centuries.

«That is what set my ambition, in a way, because one thing I noticed, they may have had work by African American artists, and a lot of museums do have some work, but the way in which that work exists in the museum is on such a small scale.»

[18][19] The painting is the first work by an African - American woman to hang in the public spaces of the White House as part of the permanent collection.

This piece is the first work by an African Artist to end up in a European collection.

The Joyner / Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary work by African and African Diasporan artists.

The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary work by African and African Diasporan artists, and Four Generations draws upon the collection's unparalleled holdings to explore the critical contributions made by black artists to the evolution of visual art in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The Obamas are connoisseurs — they were the first presidential family to display work by African - American painters like Glenn Ligon and Alma Thomas — and yet their choice stood out, because Wiley is an artist whose stature in the art world comes close to matching Obama's in politics.

The book elucidated the collection's prominence as one of the most significant holdings of modern and contemporary work by African - American and African diaspora artists.

New and recent work by African - American sculptor Melvin Edwards is on display at David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Few have the opportunity to travel around the country to view all of the important and compelling museum exhibitions featuring work by African American artists.

According to Artforum, the acquisition is made up of work by African - American artists from the southeastern US, including artworks by Thornton Dial, Ronald Locket and fifteen Gee's Bend quilts spanning from 1930 to 2005.

This early contè crayon drawing is a strong addition to WCMA's collection of American art and the first major social realist work by an African - American artist before 1950.

Among these six new titles, a number accompany exhibitions of work by African American artists including Norman Lewis, Kerry James Marshall, and Mickalene Thomas.

This far more intimate event at the Pioneer Works space in Red Hook, Brooklyn, is focused on the work by African and African diaspora artists.

THIS SPRING MARKS THE OPENING of a number of notable exhibitions featuring work by African and African American artists.

In the early 1990s, as a young artist out of graduate school at Bennington College in Vermont, where he studied the work of mainstream abstract painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Noland, Odita got a job at Kenkeleba House in New York, owned by the painter Joe Overstreet, who collected and showed work by African American artists.

Best of all, of those titles, nearly 500 ebooks are works by African authors and publishers.

The BMA is also hosting a Wikipedia Edit - a-Thon for entries about African - American artists represented in the BMA's collection, and offering a new self - guided tour of works by African - American artists whose works are currently on view in the galleries.

RECOMMENDED FEATURES recently published content from around the web, recommendations from Culture Type worth taking the time to explore: «The Met Embraces Neglected Southern Artists» by Paige Williams The New Yorker The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the acquisition of dozens of works by African American self - taught artists from the South including Thornton Dial,...

In 1942, the Corcoran Gallery purchased the odd - numbered panels and the Museum of Modern Art acquired the even - numbered ones (the first works by an African American artist brought into MoMA's collection).