Jean-Michel Basquiat: Neo Expressionist Pop Icon
Jean-Michel Basquiat, known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text, was the African American artist who emerged from the...
Category : Black Artist
The Art of Carl Owens
Carl Owens is one of the great African-American artists of Detroit. He is best known as an illustrator, portrait artist and fine arts painter. One...
Faith Ringgold: Acclaimed Story Quilt Maker
Faith Ringgold is an African-American painter, writer, speaker, mixed media sculptor and performance artist best known for her large, painted story quilts. Born Faith Willi...
The Art of Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series (1940–41), a sequence of 60 paintings, depicts the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban...
Romare Bearden: Renowned African American Collage Artist
Romare Howard Bearden (September 2, 1911- March 12, 1988) was an African-American artist and writer renowned primarily for his collages. In subject matter, Bearden’s brightly-colored...
The Art of Hale Woodruff
Hale Aspacio Woodruff (August 26, 1900 – September 6, 1980) was an African-American artist known for his murals, paintings, and prints. His three-panel work, Amistad...
The Art of Ulrick Jean-Pierre
“My historical paintings represent the ultimate reference to the collective memory that all Haitians share about their glorious past and to the energetic force which...
The Art of Norman W. Lewis
Norman W. Lewis was an African American Abstract Expressionism painter. His earlier work was mostly figurative, but in the late 1940s, his work became increasingly...
The Art of Ernie Barnes
“An artist paints his own reality.” “My early paintings have all the rawness and passion of the (football) game.” “One day on the playing field,...
Black Skin: White Mask – The Art of Laurie Cooper
Laurie Cooper is an African-American artist born and based in Philadelphia, PA. She received her BA degree from the University of Arts and her Master’s...