Test 2018 posts
Nina Chanel Abney’s Intricately Dense and Critically Clear Painting
The Chicago-born artist's work is as entrenched in political discourse as it is in pop culture.
Nina Chanel Abney
In Brief
Studio Museum in Harlem and DC Arts High School Receive Historic Gift of Over 650 Contemporary Works
The late civil rights activist and Black arts patron Peggy Cooper Cafritz has bestowed the "largest gift ever made of contemporary art by artists of African descent" to the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.
Art
A Year of Magical Figurative Art
2017 was a strikingly strong year for all kinds of figurative representation and portraiture: contemporary, midcentury, imagined, caricatured, oil-painted, and drawn.
Art
Nina Chanel Abney Paints on the Edge of Violence
Abney locates much of her work on the recognition that abuse and violence are an integral part of the everyday consciousness of people of color.
Art
8 Figurative Painters in an Atemporal World
Recurrent throughout 8 Painters are stylings on past painterly marks and movements, not so much placed in quotations as absorbed into a work’s facture.