Sentences with phrase «young african»

His layered compositions combine a photograph of a young African - American and a woodcut of a figure in African dress (left), which hovers like a ghost, and a little like a tattoo, on the contemporary portrait: a deconstruction of the term «African - American.»

She adds that the 10 or 20 major curators of color in the U.S. is an improvement over the four or five of the past but that «the opportunities for young African - Americans majoring in Art History seem to be much richer in academia than in museums.»

He was also included in the Business Day's Wanted magazine as a Young African Artist (YAA), thanks to his continued contributions to emerging South African practice.

The first painting in this exhibition that shows clearly where Mr. Hendricks was headed is a head - and - shoulders portrait of a young African - American soldier, whose olive - green helmet and shirt harmonize with the bright - green background.

In one series, titled May June July August «57 / «09, comprising 123 vintage and contemporary black - and - white photographs, Simpson juxtaposes images of young African American women (and an occasional male figure) who posed for pinups in Los Angeles in 1957 with self - portraits in which the artist acts as a doppelganger for each model.

From his basketball hoop sculptures Higher Goals, 1986, which commented on the limited opportunities available to young African Americans, to the arresting painting How ya like me Now, 1988, which depicts a young Reverend Jesse Jackson with white skin and blonde hair, Hammons has not shied away from topics which directly impacted his own life and which continue to be the everyday reality for a large portion of the American population.

It includes early portraits of the men Wiley observed on Harlem's streets, and which laid the foundation for his acclaimed reworkings of Old Master paintings by Titian, van Dyke, Manet, and others, in which he replaces historical subjects with young African American men in contemporary attire: puffy jackets, sneakers, hoodies, and baseball caps.

In one series, titled May June July August, «57 / «09, comprising 123 vintage and contemporary black - and - white photographs, Simpson juxtaposes images of a young African American woman (and an occasional male figure) who posed for pinups in Los Angeles in 1957 with self - portraits in which the artist acts as a doppelganger for the model.

«In the»80s and»90s,» Hank Willis Thomas explained, «a lot of young African American men were getting killed over Michael Jordan sneakers.

The fabric became fashionable in the 1970s as a popular choice for disco attire and in turn, through heavy marketing, the name was adopted for many young African American girls born in the years to follow.

The gallery now finds itself in the process of not only continuing to represent these established artists but is now beginning to nurture its second generation of young African based artists by supporting their professional development.

Afropolitanism is the modish tag for recent work by young African artists.

A Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibition surveys the career of dynamic young African American artist Kehinde Wiley, whose work is some of the most sought after in today's art market.

In this series, Wiley paints young African American men in poses reminiscent of Memling's tightly composed, small - scale portraits, and encases these images in sturdy, wooden - framed boxes with panel doors.

Together, The Lost Boys (Collection of Rick and Jolanda Hunting) and De Style (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) telegraph the artist's simultaneous attentions to structural racism — young African American men cyclically lost to drugs, incarceration, violence — and spaces such as the barbershop, a site of community and cultural empowerment.

Drawing on the language of social media, hyper - globalization and dissonant collage they will present work which will challenge viewers» expectations and offer a peak into what the next generation of young African and diaspora artists are up to.

The eye - popping exhibition, A New Republic, showcased Feb 11th to May 8th 2016 at the Seattle Art Museum, assembled an extensive series of life - size, oil on canvas portraits of young African - Americans, by rising American painter Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977).

Described by film director Harmony Korine as «the single greatest dance film ever made,» Jamie's Massage the History (2007 - 09) explores a marginal cultural phenomenon: a style of private dance performance developed by young African - American men in suburban living rooms in Alabama.

Dorothy Moss, curator of painting and sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery, remembers seeing Sherald engage with young African American girls at a gallery talk.

The young African immigrant must locate herself along three divides: the first between blackness and whiteness; the second within blackness, between native and foreign; the third between African and American.

Sometimes, young African Americans go the stereotypical route of becoming a rapper, an athl

Tree Identification for Beginners is a performance commissioned for Performa 17, in which Barrada explores her mother's tour throughout the US in the summer of 1966 as part of a «Young African Leaders» program.

But after digging into the history of its artists, from Agnes Martin to Robert Ryman, «I realized that in a strange way it did make sense,» he said, «because I disrupted that space — a young African - American artist showing alongside these giants.»

IN A HANDWRITTEN LETTER, Alma Thomas (1891 - 1978) thanked an aspiring young African American physician for sending his final payment to purchase one of her paintings.

As a young African immigrant, she learned to straddle the divides between black and white, African and American, local and foreign, while negotiating her own identity between worlds.

In a short seven year career, Bob Thompson proved to be of profound influence and received unparallel praise for a young African American artist of his time.

The book chronicles the struggles of Benjie, a young African - American kid struggling with acceptance and self - worth while flirting dangerously with heroin addiction.

More photorealist paintings of young African (African American, Brazilian, or otherwise) men set against ornately patterned, Louis Quatorze - meets - Louis Vuitton backgrounds.

Described as a young African - American woman in press materials, she is, in fact, a creation of the mid-career white artist Joe Scanlan.

Race relations remained tense as the brutal police beating of the young African American Rodney King sparked the Los Angeles riots of 1992.

As a young African American artist from the segregated South, Whitten came to New York in 1960 where Abstract Expressionism still dominated the art world.

In Day Dreaming two young African American men stand holding each other, a complicated gesture that is both masculine and feminine, powerful and tender.

First focusing on young African American men in Harlem, Wiley eventually expanded his oeuvre and launched his World Stage series featuring «urban» men in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

Adopting the format used by old masters such as Titian, Van Dyke, Ingres and Manet, Wiley replaced historical subjects with young African - Americans sporting fashionable, urban gear: puffy down jackets, sneakers, hoodies, jerseys and baseball caps.

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.

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An interesting panel curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist brought together three young African artists — Zanele Muholi, Nandipha Mntambo and Athi - Patra Ruga — who all use art to explore social, political and cultural activism of one sort or another.

Monroe was used as a base for some of the Freedom Riders, who aimed to desegregate interstate bus travel, and was also the site of the infamous Kissing Case, where two young African - American boys were convicted of molestation for kissing a white classmate on the cheek.

At 22.9 %, the incarceration rate is highest among young African American men who didn't finish school.

While writing The Secret of the Sacred Scarab, Fiona fostered (and later adopted) a young African child from a disadvantaged background.

Young African - American novelists include David Anthony Durham, Karen E. Quinones Miller, Tayari Jones, Kalisha Buckhanon, Mat Johnson, ZZ Packer and Colson Whitehead, among many others.

Through twenty - four sonnets, two Connecticut poets imagine the voices of selected «Little Misses of Color» to tell the courageous story of Prudence Crandall, who opened her nineteenth century academy to young African American women.

But as a young African - American girl living in the deep South in the early 1900s, she has neither the opportunity nor the means to pursue her dream of creating it.

Vivien was a young African American man who without a medical degree or a college education, designed the surgical technique that showed doctors how to operate on children born with Tetralogy of Fallot or Blue Babies.

BookBrowse Review «Jesmyn Ward's memoir profiles five young African American men who have been lost in a spate of deaths in the small town of DeLisle, Mississippi.

Famed ballerina Misty Copeland encourages a young African American girl to follow her dreams to be a prima ballerina.

The 1963 bombing of a Birmingham Baptish church, which killed four young African American girls, puts a human face on the tragic civil rights strife.

Moreover, in a series of local - early - career researcher panels, young African scholars will talk about their work, expertise and visions.

Another name I would suggest, is Malala, the young African girl shot for going to school herself and for urging other girls to do so.

, (HarperCollins, April 2015) a novel for teens based on the life of a young African American dancer, and On a Clear Day (Crown / Random House Books for Young Readers, September 2014).