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Artist
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The
Making of America: Stories to Tell the Littlest Ones Click image to view enlargement. |
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Confinement
and Ethnicity ( Japan) Click image to view enlargement. |
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Race,
Religion and the Laws of Gravity Click image to view detailed enlargement. |
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| Artist
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The content of my art explores the tangible events of my past as well as the current events that I experience presently. In a very simple manner my art work acts as a form of re-constructive surgery. Often I explore elements of my past that were harmful to me as an African-American. When I was young I was restrained and incapable of correcting injustices inflicted upon me. Now that I am stronger and have the capacity to view the world differently, I often use my artwork to comment on a personal history. It is a history that must be illuminated if I want to proceed as an educator and an artist of integrity. My work is never created in anger. I work objectively, often researching areas I can only vaguely recollect. This is the reason for the omnipotent presence of books in my work. My single ambition is to influence my daily activities with my aesthetic vision with my daily activities. To achieve this, I must invoke the visual voice of a poet. This is a life long goal, and my resources are infinite as each moment in time evaporates into the past. I would have it no other way as art is both my salvation and my demon.
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| Artist
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| Education: 1970-72 1965-70 Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2007 2006 2004 2003 2003 2003 2002 2002 1999 1999 1998 Selected Group Exhibitions: Awards: 1982 The American Academy in Rome 1987 1987
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Copyright: The Studio 2008