Tag: african american women painters
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Curating Detroit: Sydney Frakes and the Vision Shaping a Contemporary Art Scene
AAWA News
Something is happening in Detroit. Across the city, independent galleries and emerging art spaces are creating room for artists to experiment, build audiences, and define what contemporary art can look like outside of traditional institutions. It is a landscape with its own history, cultural complexity, and an increasingly visible group of artists and creative voices.…
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Afrofuturist painter Jasimen Phillips’ debut solo exhibition Aquarium
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Afrofuturist painter Jasimen Phillips’ debut solo exhibition, “Aquarium,” at The Mantel Gallery, Long Beach, explores the relationship between humanity, technology, and nature through robotic figures observing marine life.
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She Was 75 When She Had Her First Solo Exhibition. Now Collectors Are Taking Notice.
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Landscape Painter Carolyn Jordan-Sweeney was 75 When She Had Her First Solo Exhibition. Now Collectors Are Taking Notice
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Ashley Cole and the Rise of a New Language in Abstraction
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There is a growing inevitability around the rise of Ashley Cole. In Los Angeles right now, something significant is unfolding in contemporary art: for the first time at this scale in history, Black artists are actively shaping institutions, public space, and cultural discourse in real time. Within that movement, Cole stands as one of its…
