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The premise of the exhibition is universal enough: "[G]enerations of artists have come before these six ... and generations will continue to emerge," reads the exhibition brochure. Curator Grace Stanislaus selected three respected Pittsburgh artists, sculptor Thad Mosley, fabric and textile artist Tina Williams Brewer and printmaker Jo-Anne Bates, to choose an artist whose work each admired. Except for the brief reference in Thad Mosley's statement to "talent," we are not told the criteria for selection, but the work is truly impressive.
Bates, meanwhile, chose the work of photographer and installation artist Lonnie Graham. Some might remember Graham's work from a series of community-inspired installations commissioned some years ago by the Three Rivers Arts Festival. Graham's "A Conversation with the World" series of large black-and-white photographic prints portray individuals from Senegal, Mexico and elsewhere. His subjects are selected randomly, "without reference to social status, political or philosophical predilection," the label tells us, though only a partial transcript of the conversations is presented.See the full content of this document
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Re: Generations
TO SOME, "AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART" refers to paintings, sculptures, graphic arts, crafts and architecture created by North Americans of African descent -- a purely racial fact. For others, however, this definition fails ...
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