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...Joanna Grabski Copyright © 2009 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2009 TRACES AND ECHOES Mixed Media Paintings of KALIDOU SY Joanna Grabski uring...

...Mary Ellen Strom; Shane Doyle The multimedia exhibition Cherry River, Where the Rivers Mix was presented to audiences in August 2018 at the Missouri Headwaters State Park in Three Forks, Montana. Long before the European invasion across the Atlantic, the headwaters, or the confluence of three forks...

... and Mix” Jean-Michel Basquiat in Retrospect Jordana Moore Saggese ean-­Michel Basquiat first traveled to Switzer- tant to fully embrace Basquiat on his own terms. On Jland in September 1982 for a one-­man show at the occasion of the first retrospective of Basquiat’s the Zürich...

... Mychal Bell, which drew thousands to a factors such as the region’s increasing racial diver - mixed-media appliqué quilts; who was born (two during the dinner , and the man approached me march in Jena on September 20, 2007, and sification and politics related to immigration, as years...

... significant for an artist who, in the 1980s at the height of the antiapartheid movement, made ardently realistic figurative oil and mixed-media paintings that signified the psychic detritus of apartheid’s pathologies. The weighty sparseness of Siopis’s Cake paintings (1981–81) and the airless excess...

...Joanna Grabski This article focuses on Viyé Diba’s Tout Se Sait (2014), a mixed-media installation that framed and evoked the experience of Dakar’s streets. Exhibited at the Koba Club in downtown Dakar during the Dak’Art Biennale 2014, this proposition expanded on themes, approaches, and materials...

...Elizabeth W. Giorgis Ethiopian artist Dawit Abebe’s Jerba paintings were first exhibited in Addis Ababa in 2015. Jerba , a word that means “back” or “background,” is a series of mixed media and acrylic paintings concerned with historical memory and the political and cultural accounts attending...

....” This article comes to grips with Donkor as a politically radical and aesthetically experimental painter and mixed-media assemblage artist by tracing the ways in which his hard-hitting subject matter comes to life across his UK Diaspora (2007) series. Donkor is all too aware of the ways in which a history...

... ability to layer multiple “stories” by evincing a temporal, spatial, and kinetic aesthetic in his visual work; on his choice of and approach to his materials; and on the changes in his oeuvre over the years: from painting and mixed media to monumental steel sculptures of Amharic letters, constructed...

... with negative emotions: sorrow, pain, and humiliation. Illustrative of the turn is the 2009 exhibition Beauty and Pleasure in South African Contemporary Art , which considered pain and suffering as overrated and sought to provide a more accurate picture of life on the continent as a mix of pleasure and pain...

... history is one of the main topics in António Ole’s artwork. The artist was born into a mixed Angolan and Portuguese family in 1951. His first exhibitions in Luanda took place at the end of the 1960s, before independence. After finishing his film studies in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, Ole returned...

... in Los Angeles pushed the parameters of consciously black art by offering a fundamental reevaluation of the meaning art could have in black lives. Much like avant-garde jazz musicians, visual artists developed a unique mixed-media language that combined themes of political insurgency, communitarian...

... to consider the Iscotch, youthful followers of the Shembe religion identifiable by their mix of European and Zulu sartorial traditions. Copyright © 2013 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2013...

... position. Evelyn’s ability to mix the contemporary with the historical in such acts of reconstructive storytelling, to respond sensitively yet provocatively to built environments, is impressive. It is time for someone to give him a public, possibly art-specific site in London or New York, where a wider...

... of the French Empire in which the film takes place: West Africa and Southeast Asia, Benin, and Vietnam; the 1950s and today. Far from a politicohistorical documentary, however, Indochina explores the human possibilities of racial mixing and the psychological traumas of the Afro-Asian children most often torn...

... Wanjiku, Untitled, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 70 cm. © Beatrice Wanjiku Okeke-Agulu Nka 89 The Strangeness of My Madness, 2013. Mixed media on canvas, 100 x 150 cm. © Beatrice Wanjiku what Stuart Hall once described as the brute facts of human history, which after all have disfigured the lives...

... from practices transgressive still- to and work her for sculptural to new pointed directions of installation service the in cast objects and found of use Mutu’s ings,” collage- and ­media mixed- new nine were Flee Bury Hunt of stars the While registers. formal...

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... awesomely self-obsessed, and in others singularly naive. Not a good mix. But, to return to an earlier...

... of the works engage painting as idea, discipline, language or history. "Untitled (Paradise 1999, features a small vertical rectangular dark mixed-media painting set against a light floral...