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American painter Barkley L. Hendricks (b. Philadelphia, PA, 1945; d. New Haven, CT, 2017) was an American painter and photographer who revolutionized portraiture through his realist and post-modern oil paintings of Black Americans living in urban areas, beginning in the 1960s and 1970s.  Hendricks’ depictions of the Black figure exude attitude and style. The artist culled subjects forContinue reading “Barkley L. Hendricks”

American Sculptor Richmond Barthé, in full James Richmond Barthé, (born January 28, 1901, Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, U.S.—died March 6, 1989, Pasadena, California), American sculptor who was a vital participant in the Harlem Renaissance. Barthé was born to parents of African, French, and Native American descent. At age 23 he went to Chicago, where he studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1924 to 1928.Continue reading “Richmond Barthé”

Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. She has gained national and international recognition for her cut-paper silhouettes depicting historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence, and subjugation. Walker has also used drawing, painting, text, shadow puppetry, film, and sculpture to expose the ongoing psychological injury caused by theContinue reading “Kara Walker”

1933 – 2022 American painter Sam Gilliam is one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. He emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid 1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting. David Kordansky Gallery and Pace are saddened to announce that artist Sam Gilliam passedContinue reading “Remembering Sam Gilliam”

Widespread, systemic problems in the health care system, such as access and cost, disproportionately affect Black Americans. Taylor Bryant According to the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, the adult Black community is 20% more likely to experience serious mental health problems, yet only one in three African-Americans who need help actually receive it. To give a comparison:Continue reading “10 Biggest Barriers To Black Mental Health Today”

American painter Titus Kaphar is an artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations examine the history of representation by transforming its styles and mediums with formal innovations to emphasize the physicality and dimensionality of the canvas and materials themselves. His practice seeks to dislodge history from its status as the “past” in order to unearth itsContinue reading “Titus Kaphar”

Los Angeles native and New York based visual artist, Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history’s portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists, including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, among others, Wiley, engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic and the sublime in hisContinue reading “Kehinde Wiley”

American painter Born in Columbus, Georgia, and now based in the New York City area, Amy Sherald documents contemporary African American experience in the United States through arresting, intimate portraits. Sherald engages with the history of photography and portraiture, inviting viewers to participate in a more complex debate about accepted notions of race and representation,Continue reading “Amy Sherald”

Black artists have shared powerful portrayals of the struggles and triumphs of African Americans through their paintings, sculptures, photos, and other artworks. Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kara Walker, Jacob Lawrence, and other artists help to illuminate the African-American perspective to the world. The African-American artists here all hail from relatively recent times, and have had a hugeContinue reading “Influential African-American Artists To Celebrate”

Kerry James Marshall (b.1955 in Birmingham, AL; lives and works in Chicago, IL) is recognized as one of the leading contemporary artists of his time. Internationally renowned, Marshall’s work interrogates Western art history—from the Renaissance to 20th-century American Abstraction—challenging and recontextualizing the canon to include themes and depictions that have been historically omitted. His mastery asContinue reading “KERRY JAMES MARSHALL”