HUMANKIND- Featuring Midwest Artists From" Chicago, Detroit , Milwaukee"
Gallery Guichard
Our New Virtual Exhibit “ Humankind” Featuring Midwest Artists From Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee
Featuring the art of:
Judy Bowman
Sabrina Brooks
Alpha Bruton
Marlene Campbell
Darin Darby
Andre Guichard
Akin
Onzie Norman
Peter Owolabi
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Specializing in artworks based on the African Diaspora, Gallery Guichard is a one-of-a-kind African art gallery in Chicago. Though the gallery predominantly displays paintings from artists all over the world, it isn’t uncommon for them to focus on ceramics, sculpture, and even furniture based on African culture. Fine artworks by new artists are showcased every 6 or 8 weeks and the expert selection easily brings attention to the keen eye of the curator. Besides exhibitions, the gallery also provides a host of other services like art curation management as well as commissioning artworks. It’s also possible for patrons to rent out original artworks for a few days. If you are in the mood to immerse yourself in thought-provoking works of art, a visit to Gallery Guichard might be a great idea.
“Give Your Child Permission to Live Together in Peace”, 64 x 48, Acrylic on Wood - Side 2
"My Head Will Grow to It", (photographer Frank Dandridge), 64" x 48", Acrylic on Wood
I have carried this image around in my clipping files for over thirty years. I have only painted it twice. The first is in the collection of Dr. Thaddeus Archie, of Sacramento CA. 30" x 36" canvas blue and black. I found it to be such a striking pose, with the little boy intensely starring into the world around him. Oftentimes little boys are depicted as "men-child" demonized by society, but in our realities, we know and understand that they will grow up to be our future.
Paying tribute to Frank Dandridge was a freelance photojournalist who worked mainly for Life Magazine in the '60s. He covered numerous assignments, including, The Harlem Riots in 1964, Dr. King's, March on Washington, in 1963, and the terrible Birmingham Bombing in 1963. His photos also appeared in Look, Saturday Evening Post, Pageant, Paris Match, Good Housekeeping, Quick Magazine, the Canadian Film Board, Playboy, and many other national magazines.
human beings collectively
Anxiety is the modern man's natural state.
Synonyms: humankind, humanity, mankind, people, mortals, the human race, Homo sapiens
I selected six-pieces of artwork for this group exhibition, each is narrative and is telling a story about humankind, about our humanity through a visual presence.
“I am the Sacrifice”, Acrylic on Canvas, 22" x 22", 2019
This series I created during the Echo's of Our Journey Exhibition at Gallery Guichard, celebrating the centennial of the Great Black Migration, 2016. I left them on the pages of my sketchbook/journal to be continued and finished them in late 2019. I call these stylized narratives "No One Listen's But the Paper" where I am in collaboration with a poet, writer, spoken word artist to produce a visual narrative of their voice. Dudley Randall's words spoke to me.
I found the work of poet Dudley Randall in the New Negro Poets U. S. A. a relic from 1964 at the dawn of the Civil Rights Act, Jim Crow laws were still very much in place in the United States. Famed poet laureates Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks brought together the work of new African American poets in one volume of poetry to speak of their current state in society. With poems speaking of a wide range of topics, New Negro Poets U. S. A. is a volume that should not be overlooked when discussing African American poetry.
Dudley Randall was the leading exponent of the new black poetry movement of the 1960s. Randall, whose critically-acclaimed poems prompted Detroit Mayor Coleman Young to name him the Poet Laureate of the City of Detroit in 1981, started the Broadside Press out of his home in 1965 and ran it nearly single-handedly for a dozen years, promoting the work of a generation of black poets.
“Journey Through True Life”, 2020 Epoxy on Museum Panel
Here is the first painting I did "Journey Through True Life".
True life Journey is here to help you along your way. Journey to the wilderness within to bring out your dreams and aspirations from your inner being and into your living world.
In my work, I like to take the subject and place them in different surroundings. Here the subject in his stillness is reflecting the tranquility of being in nature, and experiencing our journey instead of having anxiety about the path we have chosen or didn't choose.
"Queen Selma", 2020 Mixed media on canvas, acrylic gesso
Art and Social, "Queen Selma" Underneath the Pettis Bridge, 2018.
Sacrificial Lamb “Peace Tower” Mark di Suvero- Chicago Cultural Center, 2007, framed and updated 2020, for Gallery Guichard "Humankind"
Collage on Blackboard, this was submitted to a group exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center speaking to Gulf War, and the slaughtering of human life, as wars rage on hotspots around the globe. I was one of 50 artists featured in this installation.
The Peace Tower is a collection of two-foot square panels, essentially protest signs, assembled along a fancy scaffold. Each panel contains an original message by a participating artist regarding the war and the hope for conciliatory efforts. The monument to peace was first constructed in Los Angeles in 1966 as a protest against the Vietnam War.
It was re-erected once in New York in 2006 in response to the current war, and now will be on view at the Chicago Cultural Center for four months. Snubbing the art-world tradition of delicately-spaced art in a white box gallery, The Peace Tower stylistically emulates a community center-type art show, a public forum, or the community bulletin. Jason Foumberg
"Mrs. Bessie" , Assemblage on Wood,
Part of my Matriarch series, "Grandmothers Circle, A Tribute to Mama Crecy, and Sallie Alpha", 2013- Continuum.
Reference:
http://www.jasonfoumberg.com/writing/reviews/2007/227/
https://biography.jrank.org/pages/2931/Randall-Dudley.html
Read more: Dudley Randall Biography - A Poet from an Early Age, Civil Rights Movement Inspired Randall, Broadside Press Published Black Poetry - JRank Articles https://biography.jrank.org/pages/2931/Randall-Dudley.html#ixzz6eD7m9blo