#ContemporaryBlackArtists

[harvardfineartslib]

February is Black History Month, and we’re showcasing just a few examples from our collections on contemporary American Black artists. More to come throughout this month, so stay tuned!

I'm Roberts, Deborah, 1962- [artist, interviewee] [2021] HOLLIS number: 99156414672603941

Dawoud Bey in dialogue Carrie Mae Weems Platt, Ron, 1959- [author] [2022] HOLLIS number: 99156378937603941

Hank Willis Thomas : all things being equal ... Hank Willis Thomas (Aperture Foundation) 2018 HOLLIS number: 99153724906803941

Spiritualità e femminismo nero nell'arte pubblica di Simone Leigh Salgó, Eszter [author] [2020] HOLLIS number: 99155201738303941

[adorahorton]

Mississippi Mud, by Adora Horton, acrylic on canvas, 18x24. - #art #abstractart #abstractpainting #marbleart #marblepainting #painting #sundayvibes #artistsoninstagram #modernart #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #contemporaryblackartists #modernpainting #largepainting #artforinteriors #bohoart #bohodecor #homedecor #eclecticart #eclecticdecor #eclecticpaintings #abstractexpressionism #artistsinatlanta #fluidart #fluidpainting #neoexpressionistart #blackwomenartists #blackcreatives #paintingoftheday #adorahorton (at Duluth, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CC1CPhYFWIs/?igshid=l9xvjim6m5en

[stoop55]

work by Laylah Ali Laylah Ali is a Massachusetts-based painter and a professor at Williams College. Ali is best known for gouache paintings that depict a fictional race known as the Greenheads—ageless, genderless, racially ambiguous characters who act out a variety of social situations, often in a cartoon-strip format. #ContemporaryBlackArtist #HerWork #WomensHistoryMonth (at Brooklyn, New York)

[harvardfineartslib]

These words are from a selection of Walker’s writings that are printed as they appear typed on index cards. Almost twenty years later, these words still haunt us with the harsh reality of racism. Artists often ask us questions and present work that make us uncomfortable. The power of art is to make us confront uncomfortableness within us and see the reality.

“I would like to point out that invisibility can be a form of power – CAN BE – didn’t say is don’t put words in my mouth. Of course this doesn’t play well in an art Institution which is all about vision, seeing, looking, Tangibility, and for folks who feel they are not seen , to see visual art that doesn’t gratify, this, small, pleasure – look…

I don’t give It up that quick for everyone.

I am still waiting for the revolution to come down.

See, I stirred something in your sedentary feet. spelled wrong. see. Lazy and stupid

lazy and stupid”

Kara Walker : narratives of a Negress edited by Ian Berry … [et al.] ; essays by Darby English … [et al.] ; writings by Kara Walker, selected by Ian Berry. Walker, Kara Elizabeth. 1st MIT Press ed. Saratoga Springs, NY : Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College ; Williamstown, Mass. : Williams College ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003. 205 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 x 31 cm. English

Exhibition presented at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, Jan. 18-June 2, 2003, and Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, Aug. 30-Dec. 5, 2003.

[adorahorton]

Norman W Lewis, G. O. A. T. - Abstract Expressionist OG. - LEGEND - ICONIC - Your fav could never.... #normanlewis #OG #abstractexpression #blackartists #blackabstractartists #blackcontemporaryartists #legend #iconic #arthistory #blackhistory #americanhistory #abstractexpressionism #abstractartists #contemporaryblackartists

[adorahorton]

"Hurry up and come Home" a commissioned piece for @perk85 currently serving for our country in Japan in the Air force. 16in x 20in, oil on canvas. FIXING PLANES & GETTING PLANES NAMED AFTER HIM ETC. IM SO PROUD OF YOU!!! #shoutout to everyone #serving in the #ArmedServices #army #airforce #navy #coastguard #marines #blackops #sealteam6 || #abstractart #shoutouttoeveryoneserving #abstractexpressionism #tealpaintings #neoexpressionism #indyart #blackart #contemporaryblackartists #blackartists #adorahorton

[adorahorton]

“Where can we be Black?” 16in x 20in oil on canvas by Adora Horton. #art #artistsoninstagram #instaart #oilpainting #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #neoexpressionism #expressionism #postblackart #blackinamerica #charlestonshootings #blacklivesmatter #blackart #blackartists #contemporaryart #contemporaryblackartists #indyart #317art #adorahorton