PAMM Pérez Art Museum

Romare Bearden

14 Jan - 26 Jun 2016

Romare Bearden
Evening 9: 10 461 Lenox Avenue, 1964
Photostat mounted on fiberboard.
50 1/2 x 66 inches.
Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase with funds provided by Jorge M. Pérez, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the PAMM Ambassadors for African American Art Art. © Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
ROMARE BEARDEN
14 January – 26 June 2016

Project Gallery: Romare Bearden features a series of photostat Projections produced by the artist in 1964. Bearden created 21 small collages, which he subsequently converted into large black-and-white photographic images. The imagery comprises some of the first artistic representations of black traditional and popular culture from an African American perspective.

Recognized as one of the most original and prolific visual artists of the 20th century, Romare Bearden (b. 1911, Charlotte; d. 1988 New York) has had a number of solo exhibitions dedicated to his work, including The Art of Romare Bearden, a major traveling retrospective organized by the National Gallery of Art in 2003 and, most recently, Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey, originated by the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service, which toured the country through early 2015.
 

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