Friday, January 12, 2018

Revelations: Art From the African American South


The show Revelations: Art from the African American South, up at the de Young Museum through April, is completely wonderful and, if you're in the Bay Area, absolutely not to be missed.

It starts off with a huge room full of Gee's Bend Quilts, which I'd never seen in person before, and which in the flesh were so emphatically, powerfully beautiful I could not wipe the grin off my face. Then it move on to several wonderful galleries of sculpture and painting. Here are some of my favorites.

Quilt above is by Jessie T. Pettway


Annie Mae Young


Annie Mae Young


Gearldine Westbrook


Plummer T. Pettway


Rosie Lee Tompkins, Willia Ette Graham, and Johnnie Wade


Willie Abrams


Mary Lee Bendolph


Deborah Pettway Young (this one is two-sided, here is one side)


Deborah Pettway Young (and here is the other side)


Annie Mae Young


Florine Smith


Leonardo Drew


Thornton Dial


Thornton Dial


Cornelia Parker


El Anatsui


El Anatsui (detail)


Lonnie Holley


Mose Tolliver


Purvis Young


Ronald Lockett


John Bankston


Joe Light

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