gets a nod from Alex Greenberger who recently wrote in ARTNews about NYC’s obsession with abstract painting and its “return” (“better than ever”) after “years of figurative painting.
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Oliver Lee Jackson
Tag: blackartists
Adger Cowans
An icon in the world of photography and fine art, Mr. Cowans was a member of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists), the 1968 South Chicago born collective founded by Jeff Donaldson, Jae Jarell, Wadsworth Jarell, Barbare Jones-Hogu, and Gerald Williams.
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Haywood “Bill” Rivers
Haywood “Bill” Rivers was born in 1922 in North Carolina. He studied at the Art Students League in New York and the École du Musée du Louvre in Paris. His work saw considerable success, winning the Gretchen H. Hutzler Award, the Baltimore Museum Annual Prize, and Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in 1948, as well as the John Hay Whitney Fellowship in 1952. Rivers was a co-founder of Galerie Huit in Paris. The cooperative gallery exhibited many American artists including Paul Keene, Edward Clark, and Herbert Gentry.
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Peter Bradley
A dedicated abstractionist and former art dealer, Peter Bradley reveals the myriad possibilities of acrylic paint, by pouring layers of color onto his canvases.
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Berrisford Booth
is part of the Chop Shop, which is in part inspired by the Spiral Collective (Norman and Richard were members).
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Kwesi O. Kwarteng
Kianja Strobert
work is at the intersection of found image, three dimensional forms, installation and painting. She is on faculty at Harvard.
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Betty Blayton-Taylor
was a groundbreaking leader who devoted her life to creating space for artists, art, and arts education. A deeply creative and committed artist and activist, Blayton-Taylor was an influential arts leader in the Harlem art scene—and New York at large.
#bettyblaytontaylor
Emmanuel Awuni
Emam Gbewonyo
is a British-Ghanaian artist and curator living in London, and is the founder of the Black British Female Artist (BBFA) Collective – a platform that supports Black women artists. Gbewonyo studied BA European Textile Design at Bradford School of Art and Design and began her career as a knitwear designer in New York. Following six years in the industry, redundancy prompted her return to the UK and subsequent career change. Her art practice investigates identity, womanhood in particular, whilst advocating the healing benefits of craft.
#emamgbewonyo
Alteronce Gumby
says they are “drawn to works that were given a lot of attention to details. The devil is in the details. It’s in the color composition or orientation of the work or the clever use of contrasting materials that look or feel very seamless.” His artistic practice includes painting, ceramics, installation, performance, and film.
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Vaughn Spann
Vaughn’s radically divergent painting practice embraces duality. His canvases range from impastoed mixed-media abstractions to surreal portraiture that echoes the two halves of his output.
#vaughnspann
Ficre Ghebreyesus
Ficre was an Eritrean-American artist who made colorful paintings in a series of styles including representational, abstract, and a surreal combination of the two. His paintings show influences of European and American art as well as the culture and scenery of his native country.
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Fred Eversley
Frederick John Eversley (born 1941) is an American sculptor who lives in SoHo, New York, and for many years, as a Venice Beach resident, was associated with the California Light and Space movement. He is recognized for his “centripetal casting” process and for being a pioneer Black abstractionist.
#fredeversley
Charles Alston
was an American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem. Alston was active in the Harlem Renaissance; Alston was the first African-American supervisor for the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project. Like many Modernists he explored figuration and abstraction.
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Painting After Art is Dead 