blackartists – Page 9 – Painting After Art is Dead

Paul Sende

(Artoforum says) Paul’s sculptures and light installations unite the handmade and high-tech.

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Shinique Smith

First saw Shinique on Artsy.

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Barbara Chase-Riboud

Barbara Chase-Riboud is an American visual artist and sculptor, bestselling novelist, and award-winning poet.

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Evangeline Montgomery

Evangeline “EJ” Montgomery (born May 2, 1930 in New York, New York) is an American artist known primarily for her metal work. She has also worked as a printmaker, lithographer and curator. She received the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. Art historian Floyd Coleman has said she “is an important figure in American art. She has a long career of participating and assuming leadership in progressive causes that promoted the arts and the development of community.

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Betty Blayton

Betty was an American activist, advocate, artist, arts administrator and educator, and lecturer.

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Jamaal Peterson

First encountered Jamaal’s work in this article (featuring Patrick’s work also). He has developed a highly encoded language of abstraction that ricochets inside of, between, and beyond the frame of the image. In this new body of work Peterman depicts the world as a global simulation. Illusionistic framing devices transform each painting into a portal through which ominous glitches in time, place, and scale occur. These works describe an interlocking system of abstract macro structures—representing legal giants, multinational corporations, massive algorithmic flows, and the weapons of destruction that protect them—across which a superimposed human figure sequentially moves.

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Mildred Thompson

Thompson’s wide-ranging oeuvre spans painting and sculpture, printmaking, musical compositions, wood works, and more.

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Howardena Pindell

Has a solo show up at The Shed. Below is older work and see her site for more.

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Dorothea Rockburne

(who is no longer with us) is featured in Expanded Painting at the Philly Museum of Art.

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Artforum notes that Galerie Lelong & Co. is presenting “Throughlines: Assemblages and Works on Paper from the 1960s to the 1990s,” a selection of works by the late artist. Her Wood Pictures began in New York and further developed in Düren, Germany during Thompson’s self-imposed exile.

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June Edmunds

Is one of the artists featured in Artsy’s Portrayals of Black Community (I first saw her at the last Armory Show)

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Jason Moran

I have known about Jason Moran’s work as a jazz musician and written about what I see as a major similarity between abstract paintings and jazz (that modality and content are one and the same). Apparently he feels that in some sense, since he makes abstract paintings himself.

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Nanette Carter

Nanette coined the term “scapologist” to describe her practice of creating sea, sky, and landscapes in which she explores political themes and the drama of human nature. These fictional, natural worlds provide the artist with a space to visually reflect on the coexistence of injustice and benevolence in contemporary society.

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Ashanté Kindle

is featured in Abstraction in the Black Diaspora, which is curated by Tariku.

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Thornton Dial

Hyperallergic says we should pay attention to the rich, vibrant worlds Thornton created during his time with us (spoiler- not all of them are abstracted).

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