... Elaine Freeman (Thomas), renowned as the training ground for the Tuskegee who later became chair of the Art Department at Airmen, another government-­sponsored experi- the institute. Freeman’s father, who was paralyzed, ment, and served as a bastion of higher education painted with his toes. Alonzo...

... and innovative techniques of painting that demonstrate the depths of his commitment to gestural abstraction as his primary mode of creative expression. Attentive to shifting terrain in technology, culture, and African American history during his lifetime, Whitten’s work participates in a memorial project...

..., and athletes, as well as the artist s friends and family, whom she renders through paint as well as photography. Alongside her attention to the history of art and identity in her work, Amos experiments with abstraction, movement, novel printmaking devices, and fabric in a manner that consistently places form...

... embracing all directions. 28 This story offers a structure to the collective s diverse membership, which varied widely in age, education, occupation, and artistic practice. For example, Lewis, Woodruff, and Charles Alston had been painting in abstract expressionist styles since the forties. Some...

... and paints symbolic markmak- ELLEN GALLAGHER ings. Her...

... paint. Unlike other contemporaneous painters in Morocco, however, who were interested in postcolonial claims of local identity expressed through direct connections between their shapes or abstractions and traditional visual culture or Islamic art, Gharbaoui s work is more elusive. Many critics have...

... Toomer, Claude McKay, the artist's career. Painted between 1947 and 1951, a par• and Zora Neale Hurston had begun to make distinctive ticularly fecund point in the evolving story of Abstract additions to the American literary canon; and the power...

... trained, contemporary artists. The abstract paintings and sculp• tures of these artists contrast sharply with the exhibit's more prolific...

... of randomness that he deliberately introduced into his designs. Gani Odutukun, Maria sitting, 1978, Pencil drawing/watercolour, 45 x 66 cm. The work in the exhibition is eclectic. There are large abstract paintings, pencil sketches of street children, and sculp• tures made from found materials...

... is beyond. This could be the reason for abstract paintings (Head, 1969) Desta returned to Ethiopia in 1962. His one-man show...

... a three-story glass tion." Boxer also had a series of operating museum, has recently under• atrium which resembles the prow of a abstract paintings on exhibit. The gone a sea change. Nestled in historic ship. The temporary exhibitions...

... buildings or monuments such as the cathedral of Notre-Dame or the famous Savoy Hotel. The artist s experimentation with postwar modernist styles, ranging from figural to abstract, further illustrates his awareness and mastery of both. Several sets of Youssef s abstract paintings reveal his interest...

... in Britain in the late 1940s and 1950s, specifically focusing on Guyanese artists Denis Williams, Aubrey Williams, Donald Locke, and Frank Bowling. These pieces, ranging from sculpture to varying iterations of abstract painting, reference the hybridity that defines Caribbean culture, with influences...

... his deep relation to the world around him via a mode of abstraction that is layered with meanings. This investigation follows by centering upon a single painting from Bowling’s white series, Icarus (2005), produced after the death of his eldest son. Icarus explores themes of time, death, and spiritual...

.... In the classroom during this the spirituality of their religious practices and ritu- period and well into the 1970s, she noted that her als. Paintings produced there were more geometric, design majors often helped dance students make almost cubist, yet abstract, with flat, hard edges and their costumes...

... Emilia Azcarate's abstract paintings stained with earth or body fluids tantalized viewers' ambitions to discover new and exciting Willem Boshoff, Writing in the Sand, 2000, stenciled works. onto floor...

... the Art Students League and embraced abstract expressionism. By 1961, Télémaque had relocated to Paris, where his first paintings produced there brought him much success. Télémaque’s subsequent career, during which he took up structuralist, poststructuralist, and postmodernist modes of image making...

... attention—the characteristic Africana colors draw the viewer in to further discover and investigate African American history. The colors, textures, subjects, and abstractions in Gatson’s work echo with celebrations of African American history and important icons. Odetta Holmes, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet...

... Spring/Summer 2008 Nka-43 captured completely devoid of such activity. ceptual flags—We Flag You (2003), Morfina (1997) Moving into the first section of the exhibition, and We Chaos You (2003). The first flag is a red a series of abstract paintings and works on paper...

... in America at Modern Art. The so- called tree of contemporary art has a main branch on the left devoted to pure (abstract) paintings that were to Reinhardt s liking, while a second, over- loaded branch threatening to break has the illustra- tive or pictorial masters, mostly Americans and among them...