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Francisco Masó

Luis De Jesus just presented Francisco Masó: Documentary Abstraction, the Cuban conceptual artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The exhibition brings together new works from Masó’s ongoing series Aesthetic Register of Covert Forces. The series establishes a catalog and archive of acrylic on canvas paintings which serves as an abstract geometric guide for identifying the forces of power within a state control apparatus while simultaneously generating discourse on the militarization of Cuban civil society.
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Matthew Rosenbeck

Kristina Kay Robinson visits the studio of Matthew, a multidisplinary artist working in New Orleans who repurposes salvaged materials, for Burnaway. The work is composed of recognizable images and objects much like Hunter.

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Emily Kame Kngwarrey

One of the most celebrated Australian painters of the 20th century, Emily Kame Kngwarreye painted over 3,000 abstract acrylic paintings of dots, gestural lines, and vibrant hues, all inspired by her Aboriginal community’s symbols, rituals, and daily life.
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Ronald Joseph

Ronald Joseph started his artistic career in Harlem, New York City at the Harlem Community Arts Center, where he was one of the youngest pupils. Joseph’s early oil paintings were influenced by Picasso, Braque and other European artists while most of his contemporaries focused on social realism. By 1943, he was hailed by art historian James Porter as New York’s “foremost Negro abstractionist painter”.

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Harlan Jackson

Was a Harlem Globetrotter among other accomplishments.

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William Lawrence Compton Kolawole

doesn’t yet hold the esteem attributed to peers like Sam Gilliam and Betty Blayton (although he was included in Something to Look Forward To). Most information on the internet about his work is short bios from auction sites (example). Kolawole lived in Munich in the 1960s before returning to the U.S. His work has been included in a number of museum exhibitions in addition to Something… (which took place at the Morris).

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Bill Hutson

Bill Hutson, also known as William R. Hutson, (September 6, 1936 – September 21, 2022), was an African-American abstract fine artist, who specialized in painting and collage.

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Ty Davis

Saw below at Artfields (along with Anna and Daniel). Ty shows with Tiguere Contemporary.

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Ray Grist

is an artist, educator and publisher.

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Oliver Lee Jackson

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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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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