... of the arts at the the Royal Academy Head of Summer Exhibitions University of California, Santa Cruz. and Contemporary Curator Edith Devaney, to the Julien Nka 145 ...

...—an American-bred Nigerian artist, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, and an African American, California-based artist, Brett Cook—with emphasis on the various dimensions of their art in engaging with people within a mostly unfamiliar environment and culture. Copyright © 2017 by Nka Publications 2017 smARTpower...

...Brett M. Van Hoesen This essay reviews the compelling recent exhibition Glyphs: Acts of Inscription , hosted by the Pitzer College Art Galleries in Claremont, California, co-curated by Renée Mussai, curator and head of archive at Autograph ABP in London, and Ruti Talmor, assistant professor...

..., Mirror, Lens , inspired by Samuel R. Delany’s landmark science fiction novel Dhalgren . While Harris’s large-scale Mylar-and-light installations often refer to the Light and Space artists of her native California, to Robert Smithson, to Land Art, and to minimalism and various other areas of art history...

... in a way that is of" white people—read, showing tenets of minimalism (the blank "foul." The California artist Betye internationally in major venues. slate and pure...

... California artists Los Angeles black artists Watts Tower Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2014 REFLECTIONS ON JOHN OUTTERBRIDGE Deep within the spirit and flesh of my being, the fretting breath of ancestors guides the burning faith. Sacred are the visions...

.... These artists, along with other Southern to by residents as “the village.” The Brockman Gal- California artists of the era, were included in the lery was founded during the heyday of the so-­called notable 1989 exhibition 19 Sixties: A Cultural Awak- Black Arts movement. Though numerous galler- ening Re...

... of Southern California, assemblage, organizations throughout the black world. This junk, and found art became a means “for recycling article explores the central aesthetic ideas among a the discards of postwar affluence into defiantly community of black artists based in Los Angeles. In deviant...

... Sapphire, You’ve Come a Long Black Expo in 1972 and served on the California Way Baby. Organized by Betye Saar, Sapphire was Council for the Arts from 1976 to 1978. Jackson also the first survey of LA’s African American women obtained an MFA in theater design from Yale Uni- artists and included...

... IN AMERICAN ART REVIEWS JORDANA MOORE SAGGESE BERKELEY: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 2014 Jordana Moore Saggese’s Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art is a monographic study of Jean-Michel Basquiat, an artist who experienced a near meteoric rise...

... the of – precedented sixty- un an Time,” Standard “Pacific tive, Trust Getty California aSouthern of – part was Museum Hammer the at tion exhibi The 1960s. the of movement Arts Black the milieu, and movement , installation view at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles...

... the tures of African American women from the period, murals and pre- Columbian art. but his 1930s reformulation of modernism to Along with a handful of other black artists work- address his racial identity is signi cant in terms of ing in California, including Thelma Johnson Streat, understanding his...

... was the last exhibition of his works that apt for Ekpuk's brief, successful so• ately striking about them was not artists in Nigeria at the moment, and I saw, until that evening in Santa journ, in California. painstaking...

... uniden• California Eagle, vol. 59, no. 28 (October 20, 1938), p. 1. tified. However, Maudelle was not the only identified black '3 Perpener, p. 18. woman who worked as an artist's model. Florence "Flo" Allen 14 Jones, p. 1. (1912-1997) was a San Francisco-based...

... conjured it from her electrified fingertips, temporary Art and Critical Theory in the Art the Afro Cyborg has situated him (both literally Department, University of California, Santa Cruz. and figuratively) within the context of other his• Soraya Murray is Assistant Professor of Contempo• toric...

... of Mouride practitioners from the Los Angeles area, invited guests from Senegal, and the larger Southern California community with a tour...

... high- lighted in vitrines to elucidate contemporaneous Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 2019144 Nka Preacher, 1940. Tempera on board, 30 x 21 1/2 in. The Davidsons, Los Angeles, California. © 1940 The Charles White Archives Photo: The Huntington Library, Art Collections...

...,” Jordana Moore Saggese is assistant professor of con- in The Culture Game [Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004 temporary art history and theory at California Col- 17. “I Have to Have Some Source Material around...

... mind and art take him. Wosene, 1999. Energy Arts Studio, Jakland, California. Photo: Patricia DiRubbo Kreamer and Purpura Nka • 137 Artist sketches for sculptures 138 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 31...

... at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Lewis Watts, Metro, Paris, 2013. Archival pigment print, 44 x 30 in., framed. Courtesy the artist...