Category: visual art

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check this artist: Barkley L. Hendricks

hendricks

First of all big ups to Google Reader because without it I would have never found out about this artist. I was reading John Keene’s blog J’s Theater and the a painting in his post caught my attention because it looked like a Kehinde Wiley ( I won’t link him, there is plenty of info out there about himyou can find it) , but it was actually a portrait done by Barkley L. Hendricks check out more of his work here . The similarities are pretty striking… check out the Fela portrait here to see how striking the similarities are; I like how keene put it on his blog. He said that “His (Hendricks) DNA is all up in Wiley’s and others’ work. ” Apparentely, The Studio Musuem after (w)rapping the Kehinde Wiley show put up Barkley L. Hendricks show and it will be up through March 15, 2009, get more info here

Big ups all the way around to Google Reader, John Keene for posting to J’s Theater, Sarah Ball for her article Battle of the Brushes of Urban Portraiture or Urban Outfitters , and the curators at the The Studio Museum of Harlem for their research in finding and showing Barkley L Hendricks.

Sources for this post.

http://jstheater.blogspot.com/

http://www.newsweek.com/id/169158

http://nasher.duke.edu/galleries/main_gallery/?cat=1&offset=0&pic_id=1

http://www.studiomuseum.org/barkley-l-hendricks-birth-of-the-cool/

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/barkley_l_hendricks/index.html

http://www.newsweek.com/id/169158

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as if…

Some of us needed another reason to vote for Barack Obama…Brother E (Ethelbert Miller author of E-Notes), sent me a note today about the Presidential Candidates Policies on the Arts.
Although i don’t necessary look to leaders on this scale to really be advocates for the arts, i do think it is significant when an elected official (stolen, presumptive or otherwise) takes a position , even if it is just in rhetoric. I think just hearing it said can on that kind of platform can reinvigorate local arts communities, and give us (artists and culture workers) the leverage we need to lean on our local governments….
Anyway enough, blahblah from me read this, and forward

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come check me out

Tomorrow Friday July 18th I will hosting HOME  poetry Series at the HIllyer Artspace (9 Hillyer Court NW) featuring Jason Reynolds. I will be filling in for the regular host Simone Jacobson for tomorrow’s reading.

HOME featuring Jason Reynolds
HOME featuring Jason Reynolds
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Late Pass….

I don’t know how I missed this…but maybe I should take more late night walks down by the monuments and galleries…

The National Gallery of Art is showing Martin Puryear from June 22–September 28, 2008Ladder for Booker T Washington - Martin Puryear

Although I am ashamed to admit it I was not familiar with his work until seeing it on the latest issue of Callaloo…so i guess i get a double late pass.

It is exciting to see as you look around the city and see African American artists at some of the major venues here in DC: Jacob Lawrence at the Phillips Collection, Aaron Douglass at The Smithsonian American Art Museum and Martin Puryear and The National Gallery of Art. However, a little gender balance would be nice, i think Henry Thaggert’s she’s so articulate is an awesome start, but it would be nice to see alarge show of say ….Elizabeth Catlett. Who else is missing?