Sentences with phrase «young black artists»

The prize was created to provide inspiration for young black artists.

Intermittently over the past twelve years, the Studio Museum in Harlem has given over its galleries to large group exhibitions that survey the practices of young black artists in the United...

Intermittently over the past twelve years, the Studio Museum in Harlem has given over its galleries to large group exhibitions that survey the practices of young black artists in the United States.

In Barkley L. Hendricks, like the series of younger black artists working right now, responds to the spate of killings of unarmed black citizens in America.

The assemblages have the coarse shocks and brittle humor of combine paintings by Robert Rauschenberg, but also younger black artists like Kara Walker or Willie Cole.

Born in Zanzibar in 1954, and moving to England shortly afterwards, her education includes a Masters in Cultural History at the Royal College of Art in London with a graduating thesis titled Young Black Artists in Britain Today, anticipating her involvement in the Black Arts Movement of the 1980s and 90s.

Explaining how younger black artists aren't all that interested in identity politics or «reparations to artists of color» — how, in fact, they consider themselves mainstream — Ligon goes on to say that this «indifference to those issues opens space for me.»

The project space's first few shows have focused on younger black artists who have had little market exposure, such as the Yale MFA student Vaughn Spann and painter and sculptor Leonardo Benzant, subjects of the current show «Homeostasis,» curated by black curator and Aljira Center director Dexter Wimberly.

However, it speaks to urban realities closer to those of young black artists at the Studio Museum than to an opening at the Whitney.

For my Masters at the Royal College of Art in the»80s, I started thinking about being quite systematic about finding young Black artists.

On the reverse of the card, «The Blk Art Group was formed in the early 1980s by a radical group of young black artists including Eddie Chambers, Keith Piper, Donald Rodney and Marlene Smith.

JL Well, young black artists now have it a whole lot easier, thanks to Thelma Golden and the Studio Museum, for example.

With «Freestyle,» «Frequency,» «Flow,» and «Fore,» the Studio Museum explored how identity itself emerges obliquely for young black artists.

She grew up in London and studied theatre design at Wimbledon College of Art, before doing an MA in cultural history at the Royal College of Art, where she wrote a thesis titled «Young Black Artists in Britain Today».

He was encouraged to leave London by Larry Rivers — who said he was «stifling» — as well as by modernist poets Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery, and he admits to feeling buoyed by a group of young black artists also pursuing abstraction against a charged American political backdrop.

The Johannesburg - based artist talks to Apollo about what it means to be a young black artist working in South Africa today

As a young black artist in the early 1990s, Simmons made provocative and polished sculptural installations bluntly addressing «issues» (specifically race and class in urban America).

That figurative painting might be the way forward would not have seemed the most obvious path for a young black artist of Marshall's generation.

It was the final incarnation of a loose grouping of young Black artists and art students who, in an ever - changing line - up, exhibited in a number of exhibitions between 1981 and 1984.

Youngblood is the first abstractionist to win the Gwendolyn Knight Jacob Lawrence Prize, which every two years awards a young Black artist $ 10,000 and a solo exhibition at Seattle Art Museum.

Drawing inspiration from the civil rights and Pan-African movements, in the 1980s students of Nottingham Trent University, such as Donald Rodney, Said Ardus and Keith Piper worked within the wider Black Arts Movement in the UK under the heading The Pan-Afrikan Connection, drawing together the experiences of young black artists, with those of other generations and Third World and other global social justice struggles.