...A. M. Weaver This essay offers a detailed overview of the life and work of Californian artist John Outterbridge. It chronicles the early influences on the development of his work and unique style and brings up to date his accomplishments as an artist that deserves many more accolades...

... widely acclaimed, including Betye Saar, David Hammons, and John Outterbridge. As the text continues to unfold, a picture also emerges of the Leimert Park Village and the neighboring “Hills” communities of black wealth, the patrons of art whom the gallery hoped to serve. Copyright © 2012 Nka: Journal...

..., sculpture forms had become an important part of John Outterbridge, John Riddle), assemblage offered the California avant-­garde, drawing, among others, the possibility of creating images familiar to black the energies of Wallace Berman, George Herms, audiences without the constraints of pure realism...

... of our discussions.”5 Artists such as Glo- ria Bohanon, Senga Nengudi (then Sue Irons),6 John Riddle, Dan Concholar, John Outterbridge, and David Hammons frequently met to eat and talk late into the night upstairs in Jackson’s studio and liv- ing area. She recalls that they often turned...

... institution and the systemic racism that survived it. At a time when many among his generation, harkening to the alluring call of the mainstream, moved to distance themselves from the Africanism of a generation of artists exemplified by Bettye Saar, John Outterbridge, and Renee Stout, who profoundly drew upon...

... spiritually coded mixed-media works included in the show. Saar and peer Angelenos (at the time) Noah Purifoy and John Outterbridge were juxtaposed as a constructivist triumvirate with distinct and intersecting diaspora- evoking themes and forms, emphasized in another exhibition precedent, Now Dig This! Art...

... d’oeuvres in ner to corner. Torchlights, visible from the Bronx to people’s faces left and right. The musicians were Forty-Second Street, lit the skies over central Har- white. Mayor John Lindsay was there. The board lem. TV truck lights and wires were everywhere chair, Councilman Carter Burden...