If the art world establishment was slow to admit black artists ... glued the rectangles onto the canvas. Another example: a “painting” by Mark Bradford, the abstract expressionist American ...

This month she explored an extraordinary, yet little written about, history of Black abstraction in a piece for The New York Times: Once Overlooked, Black Abstract ... art that’s more subliminal in ...

Mining a seam of engaged, truth-telling art by black women ... But that “very abstract way” is also clearly important to her, the specific, wordless dynamics of paint on canvas.

Howardena Pindell, a multidisciplinary artist whose works include video art and abstract pieces ... the battles on the canvas. Image Rashid Johnson’s “Cosmic Slop ‘Black Orpheus ...

Gilliam, one of the most celebrated Black artists of ... She says Gilliam stunned the art world in the late 1960s when he threw away the frame that stretches a canvas flat. The artist let his ...

The world of abstract art is a mystery to me, as I imagine it is for most people. When you’re talking about colorful splotches on a canvas, what invisible committee decides that one person’s ...

A ribbon cutting was held this weekend at Karma Nightclub to mark the opening of the ‘Canvas is Black’ art exhibition. A spokesperson said, “A groundbreaking art that invites audiences to ...