HomeGround: Art of the Pan-African Diaspora
October 18 – November 24, 2012
The links between the Pan-African populations of North America, the Caribbean, Central and South America along with the art of the Native American population have produced some of the greatest art in the world. With this exhibition, by featuring the culture bearers of the African diaspora who make art from Africa,...
the Caribbean, and the Southern States of North America, Cavin-Morris Gallery begins to trace and demonstrate some of the issues and triumphs of creolization. It is commonly thought that when the subject of African American vernacular art is brought up, we are going to see an argument for African retentions in post-slavery America. HomeGround: Works from the Pan-African Diaspora takes a different path. Proceeding from predominantly West and Central African moral codes and ethics the slaves and their future descendants remembered and reinvented Africa in such a way as to make a cohesive although not uniform culture in the West.
Every artist in this exhibition is a spiritual mediator on some level whether from Haiti, Jamaica or the US. Artists from the US will include Bessie Harvey, Minnie Evans, Bill Traylor, Oscar Gilkerson, Kevin Sampson, and we are reintroducing to the art world the estate of the major American artist, J.B. Murray. Gilkerson and Evans have Caribbean connections. From Haiti we will show work by Vodou priests Hector Hyppolite, Robert St. Brice, and Andre Pierre and works with Vodou subjects by Castera Bazile, and a special private collection of sculpture by Georges Liautaud, the first Haitian artist to work in metal. From Jamaica we will show work by bush doctors Vincent and Lloyd Atherton, both Bongo men from the Port Maria area, as well as spiritual works, including musical instruments by Everald Brown, Errol Mckenzie, yard show work by Leonard Daley, sculpture by Kingsley Thomas and Woody Joseph. We will show drawings from an Angolan expatriate living in Paris, Franck Lundangi.
For further information please contact Shari Cavin or Mimi Kano at 212-226-3768, e: info@cavinmorris.com.See More
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