Exhilaration on a canvas
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Quotes and Black Art
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“Come for the art, stay for the quotes.”
“I want American history taught. Unless I’m in that book, you’re not in it either.”
— James Baldwin
A Snippet:
Did you know that James Baldwin was once a youth preacher within the Pentecostal faith, but left the church to pursue writing, full-time?
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118. “Little Light of Mine” (2021)
“If you don’t pay attention, people will try to erase history. If you ignore an atrocity, you run the risk of it happening again.”
— Anthony Peyton Young
Did you know?
Did you know that Anthony Peyton Young’s work explores, “Identity, ancestry, and memorialization with heavy influences from Black Americana, film, and his home state of West Virginia?”
Young’s ongoing project Say Their Names memorializes Black lives through, “prismatic fragmented collaged portraits.” His series started with individuals taken by police brutality, but has since expanded to include all different Black lives, including transgender and gender-nonconforming people of color who have been the victims of hate crimes.
Young believes positive queer role models and images of transgender women are important, but he also demands we do not ignore the dark reality of the continuous violence against Black bodies. “If you don’t pay attention, people will try to erase history,” he asserts. “If you ignore an atrocity, you run the risk of it happening again.”
Young earned his B.A. from West Virginia State University and his M.F.A. from Tufts University.
119. “Mars In Retrograde” (2020)
“I love playing with colors and shaping them in ways that make them pop to the eye. I’m always chasing the feeling I get when I see those kinds of contrasts in nature, and I want to put that exhilaration on a canvas; I want my art to radiate.”
— Sun Jordyn
Did you know?
Did you know that Sun Jordyn was born on January 19th (a Capricorn) in Tacoma, Washington and left for New Mexico (shortly after graduating high school), honing skills in graphite portraits?
Jordyn spent her youth bouncing between small towns in Washington and Silver Spring, Maryland.
Desiring a life where she could continue her growth, Jordyn returned to Olympia, where she discovered her current style, and has been meditating on dreams while paving a career in art ever since.
120. “Out of the Box Woman with Large White Tie” (2005)
“I decided not to do angry Black men and angry Black women. I painted what I saw.”
— Joyce Owens
Did you know?
Did you know that Joyce Owens “Out of the Box” Series was inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois’ photography project that he presented at the Paris Exposition of 1900, hoping to end or shed light on negative racial stereotyping?
As a matter of fact, Joyce Owens has been award winning since 6th grade, was a yearbook art editor in her high school, and in college Owens was the art editor of the Howard University literary magazine.
Owens is a graduate of Howard University’s B.F.A. program and has a M.F.A. in painting from Yale University.
While at Yale (where she was the only African American in her class), Owens won the Helen Winternitz Award in Painting.
Chicago Suntimes art critic, Kevin Nance, named Owens exhibition at Nicole Gallery in 2007, as, “one of the top ten of the year in Chicago.”
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