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Barbara Walker is a female artist who takes on the approach to racism in society. She took time out to observe many racial situations and uses it as motivation in her art piece. One art she completed was from her time in Margate. She created her art pieces using charcoal and chalk. her inspiration was from the racist slogans written in chalk and graffiti. Growing up in the UK, this is common around where she grew up. From this background and her residency in Margate, she was able to create this piece in the Place, Space, and Who. Barbara continues to push the agenda of racism and make it well known through art
and messages.
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| Place, Space, and Who by Barbara Walker |
Simone Leigh is a black sculptor who loves to make art towards black women. Her expertise as she says it is, "black female subjectivity". Her most recent art piece called, "Brick House" explores a black female consciousness, history, presence, and their determination in this modern times of racism and misogyny. That sculpture caught wind and it spread like wildfire all over New York. From her work, she was able to get representation from one of the major New York galleries.
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| Brick House by Simone Leigh |
Amy Sherald is a painter who is known for creating a portrait of Michelle Obama that is in the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. She was still very known without Michelle Obama but her painting of her shot her into the limelight. Amy provided a different perspective on racism. She made art that expresses the moment of being black instead of dealing with it. she is able to make the black skin pop and vibrate between the bright colors. It makes you feel that color is beautiful and very important.
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| Portrait of Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald |
Lorna Simpson is an artist that has been pushing the boundaries. she was the first African-American woman to exhibit at the Venice Biennale. Lorna talks a lot and creates art about how normalized racism is. She once said its like, "wind and rain", and that black women have been weathering this racism for some time now. Her creative style shows how the black female can come from the mist showing her dominance and power.
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Specific Notation by Lorna Simpson
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Kara Walker is an artist who makes art who put a story from the untold side. The conversation is always made that history is always one-sided and it usually told from the winner's side, but Walker's art always fills in the blank, especially from the African-American side. Her art always poses the African-American people in trauma or danger. Most of the time you can tell that the danger is that of the Caucasians. Those are the stories that are never told, the stories of the African-American families who were stuck in between the wars and revolutions. One of her paintings includes a female running away from the colonizers chasing her with pitchforks and fire. Most of her art is from the perspectives of the civil war era.
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| Alabama Loyalist Greeting the Federal Gun-Boats |
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