September 15 – October 27th, 2018
Featured Artists (year of membership)
Akili Ron Anderson (1979), Kevin Cole (2003), Adger Cowans (1978), Michael D. Harris (1979), Napoleon Jones-Henderson (founding member, 1968), James Phillips (1973), Frank Smith (1973), Nelson Stevens (founding member, 1968), and Renee Stout (2017)
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Artwork
Drawing from the tenets of the Black Power Movement, and the philosophical concepts and aesthetic principals of AfriCOBRA—works emerging from the collective captured the ethos of the black community. Through their imagery, rendered in a palette of “Kool-aid” colors, developed a black iconography rooted in African ancestry and black pride; and a lexicon, as in the term “mimesis at midpoint” to describe their artistic approach. These expressions, couched in idioms, such as, “the rich lustre of a just-washed ‘Fro” formed a vernacular that defines cultural nuances of the black experience. Myrtis Bedolla, Curator
Sankofa Woman, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 24 inches
Tree of Life, 1999
Colored Pencil, Ink, and Metallic Paint on Paper
37" x 30.5"
Do Lord Remember Me, III, 2009
Mixed Media, 31" x 108 "x 24"
Do Lord Remember Me, V, 2009
Etched Aluminum, 25" x 109" x 28"
Guidance with Grace I, 2014
Mixed media on wood
18 x 60 x 7 inches
When Burdens are Lifted, 2017
Etched Aluminum 15" x 24" x 17"
To Market, 2014
Acrylic on rag paper
17 x 44 inches
Strolling, 2014
Acrylic on Rag Paper, 17" x 44"
2 in One (Janus Painting, side 1), 2018
Acrylic on Canvas, 20" x 20"
2 in One (Janus Painting, side 2), 2018
Acrylic on Canvas, 20" x 20"
Untitled V, 2010
Oil and Water Based Monoprint, 30" x 22
Middle Passage, (Provenance: Louis Ford Collection), 1986-99
Colored Pencil, Ink, and Metallic Paint on Paper, 24" x 31", (Request Viewing)
Penance for Oshun, 2004
Archival Digital Media, 30" x 20"
Mothers and the Presence of Myth, 1994
Offset Lithograph, 30" x 22"
Origins ’53, 2002
Archival digital print
Edition no: 32/40
9 x 12 inches (unframed)
Barbados Family Tree, 2009
Collaged photos, beads, drips of acrylic, shells, hand written Amharic text, and bits of metal drip from the tree, 34" x 42"
Ain't Nobody Nothin Without God, 1999
Enamel on copper on mahogany wood
39 x 39 x 2 inches
Three Graces…, 2004-07
Colored Pencil, Variegated Lead, 32" x 24"
Txai,1994
Lithograph an Gold Ink, 30" x 22"
Ghost of our Ancestors, #2: Ju Ju Series, 2017
Acrylic on Paper, 34" x 40"
Ghosts of our Ancestor, #1: Ju Ju Series, 2017
Acrylic on Paper, 34" x 40"
Juju Revisited, 2016-17
Acrylic on Paper, 40.5” x 34”
Klan Nightmare: Ju Ju Revisited Series, 2018
Acrylic on paper
40 x 40 inches
Discard and Dat Card: Race Card Series, 2007
Mixed media collage on paper
27 ½ x 23 ½ inches
Provenance: Louis Ford Collection
Eyes Always Seen (Provenance: Jennifer Harris Collection), 2009 Acrylic, Paper, and Textiles on Paper, 16" x 17"
So We Too Cool (Provenance: Mimi Wolford Collection), Unknown
Acrylic on wood panel, 41" x 31"
Sister Mine: Sister Will You Stand With Me Series, 1994
Acrylic on Board, 36" x 30"
Booker T. in Tuskegee, 1979
Acrylic on Board, 40" x 30"
Imani Impulse, 1980
Silkscreen, 38" x 26"
2 B Wanted, 1996
Acrylic and colored pencil on Arches Rives Paper, 22" x 30"
And His Name Is, 1995
Colored pencil and acrylic on black arches rives paper
43½ x 53¾ inches
The Time She Saw too Much, 2010
Acrylic, oil paint, colored pencil and collage on wood panel
36 x 36 inches
Red Room at Five (Portfolio of 6 cibachrome prints), 1997-1999
A portfolio of 6 Cibachrome photographs, 5" x 6"
Legba and the Pearl Ground, 2015
Acrylic paint and mixed media on paper, 19" x 24"