Atta Kwami

Larry Ossei-Mensah predicts to Artsy that abstraction by artists of color will become even more prominent in 2023. The genre, Ossei-Mensah believes, is essential to shifting the public’s belief that artists of color should only make representational work that is immediately legible. He refers to Atta.

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Gene Davis

Blogging about Mokha (who was Gene’s assistant) made me realize I’ve yet to cover Davis who was a major figure in 20th-century American painting and whose contribution was invaluable in establishing Washington, D.C., as a center of contemporary art. Davis also played a significant national and international role in the color abstraction movement that first achieved prominence in the 1960s.

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Jerry Walden

SLAG & RX Galleries are pleased to announce an exhibition of artwork by the late South Carolina artist Jerry Walden. This exhibition will feature four hard-edged minimal and one figurative acrylic painting from the early 1970s and 15 hard-edged acrylic on canvas or panel paintings of the artist’s late career from the 2010s. 
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