The Afro‐Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined
April 23 – November 27, 2022
Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy

Morel Doucet
Stop and Smell the Roses (Black Bodies Stain the Pavement in Crimson Red), 2020
Acrylic on wood, mylar, aerosol paint, flora and fauna
40h x 30w in
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Galerie Myrtis is an emerging blue-chip gallery and art advisory specializing in twentieth and twenty-first-century American art with a focus on work created by African American artists. The gallery opened its doors in 2006 to utilize the visual arts to raise awareness for artists who deserve recognition for their contributions in artistically portraying our cultural, social, historical, and political landscapes; and to recognize art movements that paved the way for freedom of artistic expression.

Represented is a diverse roster of mid-career to established artists who have achieved regional, national, and international acclaim. Their works have been featured in many important museum exhibitions, such as those held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Charles Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; and Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS.

Artists’ works are in the permanent collections of:

  • Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
  • Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
  • Jules Collins Smith Museum of Art, Auburn, AL
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
  • Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
  • Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, Asbury, NJ
  • Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
  • Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture, Baltimore, MD
  • Smithsonian’s Museums of African American History and Culture and American Art, Washington, D.C.
  • The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
  • United States Embassies of Madagascar, Mauritania, and Senegal

Represented Artists: Lavett Ballard | Tawny Chatmon | Wesley Clark
Alfred Conteh | Larry Cook | Morel Doucet | Susan Goldman | Michael Gross
Monica Ikegwu | Ronald Jackson | M. Scott Johnson | Delita Martin
Arvie Smith | Felandus Thames | Nelson Stevens