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Inside the Represent Catalogue | ImaginingModernity

From the Represent: 200 Years of African American Art catalogue essay “Imagining Modernity” by Consulting Curator Dr. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw:

“The challenge of how to be a modern avant-garde artist in tune with the stylistic trends of the day and yet remain socially responsible to a broad racial community was one that artists of African descent took seriously as they moved into the twentieth century.”

“Imagining Modernity” is the third thematic chapter in the Represent exhibition catalogue. It examines works of African American artists who walked the tightrope between opportunity and oppression, artistic freedom and cultural responsibility. Somewhere between post–Civil War and the height of the civil rights movement, a new creative space was forged. This space was defined by expressions of “representation and social realism,” what DuBois Shaw describes as two signature elements of “race-conscious African American art.” In the early 20^th century, artists like Henry Ossawa Tanner, Edward Mitchell Bannister, and May Howard Jackson opened doors for African American and women artists at institutions like the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the National Academy of Design in New York. These gains were not without the pain of rejection and harsh demonstrations of racism and sexism that often drove black and women artists to foreign cities like Paris, where they could pursue their craft without limitations and persecution. Out of the smoke and dust of World War I and the stock market crash of 1929 arose the New Negro spirit and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. After W.E.B. DuBois’s The Crisis came Alain Locke’s The New Negro, a publication providing literary and philosophical platform for artists, writers, and thinkers of African descent. Exciting opportunities were offered to emerging artists like Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr., and Dox Thrash through New Deal programs like the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Act. These programs and the artistic work supported by them sparked developments for arts centers and workshops across the country as well as new techniques and approaches to creative practice that impacted art history.

For the complete “Imagining Modernity” essay, other writings, and additional Represent artworks available only in the catalogue, pick up your copy in the Museum Store or our online store today.

“Slabtown, Phoebus, Virginia,” c. 1908, James VanDerZee

“Mother and Child,” c. 1956, Elizabeth Catlett

“Saturday Night,” c. 1942-45, Dox Thrash

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The Wonderful Egg Tempera Paintings of Lars Elling

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Lars Elling (b. 1966) was educated at The National Academy of the Arts, Bergen. Elling works with tempera on canvas as his media of communication. Elling is a story teller. His layers of imagery evoke memories of childhood, with the possible disturbance and trauma written between the lines. Family is the repetitive theme in Elling’s works; familiar moments infiltrated by surprising or unpleasant elements. The formalistic aspect of Lars Elling’s paintings is characterized by the erased and the broken. The pure visual expression has a meaningful function, where story and poetry are strong fundamentals. The paintings can be seen as a burst of memory, a description of a moment, where the almost experienced or almost seen is presented in a dreamlike and poetic expression.

Elling’s works is included in the collections of the Norwegian National Gallery, Trondheim Museum of Art, the EU Commission, and Arts Council Norway, as well as being represented in many private collections in Norway and abroad.

Lars Elling has been with Galleri Brandstrup since 2003    Txt Via

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Featured Curator of the Week : Archan Nair [archanN]

Nunzio Paci lives and works in Bologna. His fascination with anatomy begins with an analytical look, observing the matter while dissecting it. Only then does he move ‘from the phenomenon to the complexity of the symbol and of culture.’

“My whole work deals with the relationship between man and Nature, in particular with animals and plants. The focus of my observation is body with its mutations. My intention is to explore the infinite possibilities of life, in search of a balance between reality and imagination.” - Nunzio Paci

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