Solange - Locked In Closets (Video) ….I wish this was a longer video and not just a short commercial
Dope….
Lunch break: William Stout’s 100 Cartoon Portraits of Legendary Blues Artists.
Tough
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Brooklyn Museum | In Conversation Mickalene Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems
Mickalene Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems recently sat down with Brooklyn Museum curator Eugene Tsai to discuss their work as a means of challenging conventional ideas of beauty, race, and gender.
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Women in Africa and the Diaspora: Art is Adanma
Chidinma Dureke, affectionately called Chi-Chi by those close to her, is a fulltime artist and entrepreneur. She recently graduated from Frostburg State University in 2011, where she completed her BFA in Graphic Design and Painting. With Africa being her main inspiration, Chi-Chi fuses colors, textures, organic shapes, and traditional techniques to create images that are fresh, iconic, expressive and diverse. Chidinma pieces give a glimpse into her perspective of identity and different political, social, and economic issues, while relaying the message of hope for her continent of Africa. She has been compared to that of Picasso and Gauguin respectively by her college professors, and has been featured in many publications including the Washington Post, Essence and the 2013 issue of Hype Hair magazine. Chidinma expresses that the purpose of her work “is to break down cultural barriers and stereotypes. I choose to give African women and children a voice and display the pride and beauty that not only comes from Africa or Black America but from all cultures.”
Rise Africa had the opportunity to speak to the beautiful Chidinma and here’s what she had to say… (read more)
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DYNAMIC AFRICA HOLIDAY GIFT LIST ITEM #10: Art Books
Various books that cover different aspects of art throughout Africa and from African artists.
Unfortunately, I personally don’t own any of these books, yet. However, they’ve been sitting in my personal Amazon wishlist for what seems like forever so I thought I’d share them with you.
I’ve created a Dynamic Africa Amazon account and added these books to a public wishlist to make it easier for anyone interested in purchasing these books to access.
For more posts on African art and artists, this tag should sort you out.
Enjoy!
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Space sleeve by Dan Henk
Pretty much the most intense shoulder ever.
Pretty much out of this world.
Art…
Wide Open Walls project | by Lawrence Williams
The love for expression of murals has spread far and wide as Lawrence Williams founded an innovative project called Wide Open Walls in Gambia, West Africa. Williams wanted art to become an integral part of this community while also promoting the country as a tourist spot. The art seems to walk around amongst the community as his project was a collaboration with project Write on Africa. This particular project was based in South Africa where they worked in public spaces to make art come alive.
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J. Quazi King is a Brooklyn based fashion and lifestyle photographer focusing on portraiture. An ex-IT professional then fashion stylist, Quazi had a childhood fascination with photography, which he only decided to explore just two years ago.
Originally from Equatorial Guinea, his work has been described as beautifully haunting, being influenced by Africa and all things indigenous.
Quazi recently took part in an exhibition of nude photography at New York’s Rush Arts Gallery. Curated by Danny Simmons and titled Neekid Blk Gurls, it featured the works of twenty photographers capturing the beauty of black women as art.
“I believe naked black women are rarely shown or thought of as art rather generally objectified and sexualized specifically in pop culture. I see the art in black women and for this reason, when I photograph them nude, I aim to portray this view in a dignifying manner,” says Quazi.
This is Africa, our Africa
Art…
symmetry….
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This is Thandi Sibisi. She is the 25-year-old daughter of South African cattle farmers. At some point she realized that in an African nation, paradoxically African art and artists were grossly under-represented by South African art market. So, she just opened her own art gallery, and in the process, became the first black woman to own an art gallery in South Africa.
That’s beautiful. That’s fly. That’s beautifully fly.
Original story from Fader; hat tip to Live Unchained for bringing it to my attention.
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Various pieces from Nigerian artist Odili Donald Odita’s exhibition entitled Body & Space.
The ideas behind Body & Space came to me in 1999 in the middle of my own aesthetic investigation on the term, ‘Black.’ Since that time, I have wanted to move beyond what I found to be the abstract nature of black, and find a space that could be more real, and more specific in the many implications and directions created through this term. I eventually found my way through Color. For myself, color is the way to become specific about black, i.e., black as skin, as a social construct, and as real experience.
Color represents freedom. It is the third space. And it is more than grey.
My exploration through color has been a search for a state of being and presence within space. I want to engage with color in terms of the politics of specificity and difference, and to speak toward individuality and of a unique distinctiveness that runs parallel to the notion of humanity itself.
Colorshould not be submissiveIt cannot be subjugatedIt will not obeyIt should not play niceColor is unrulyIt is not for the faint of heartIt can be hard and strongIt can be boldIt can be clear and trueIt can also lieIt can trick and deceive us allColor does what it wantsIt misbehavesBut most importantly,Color can change our minds-Odili Donald Odita, 2010
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