...Gabriella Nugent This article explores the entanglement of Congolese popular painting with photography through the case of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was assassinated in 1961. Lumumba’s final public appearance...

...Indie A. Choudhury Frank Bowling’s white paintings span a period of some forty years in his practice, resulting in an eponymously titled exhibition The White Paintings (2006). As a body of work, the paintings occupy the longest period within Bowling’s career yet are largely absent from his...

.... The series, only recently seen in its entirety in an exhibition curated by the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, New York, of Ringgold’s 1960s paintings, should be considered a brilliant contribution to the trajectory and consequently the narrative of American art at all levels. Copyright © 2011 Nka: Journal...

...Chika Okeke of fantastic forms, a world of humanoids, birds, reptiles. She decorative quality of the paintings. Predictably each com• seemed to have tried and indeed succeeded in freezing, even posite picture has not one but multiple points of focus, if any if momentarily, a world...

...Nadine S. Kibanda theoretical essays by other writers, MONKEY'S RIGHT TO PAINT...

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

... 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...

... artist Note known for her work in sculpture, collage-painting, video, installation, and performance. 1 Audre Lord, The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, in Sister Outsider (Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press, 1984), 41. Mutu Nka 147 © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 ...

...- Journal of Contemporary African Art • Spring/Summer 1995 Toyce Anderson, Flashback, 1994 (Xeroxes on paper on board). Collection of the artist. Courtesy June Kelly Gallery, NYC. ent media: painting, drawing...

...Nicholas Miller This article examines AfriCOBRA cofounder Jeff Donaldson’s painting Ala Shango (1969) in relation to the 1968 Chicago riots and the militaristic and Pan-Africanist rhetoric of the Black Nationalist movement. Specifically, I discuss the artist’s appropriation and incorporation...

... landscap e of th e fam ily wine farm, 1976, aged twenty-three, to engage in fur ther a place fraught with its ow n conflicts:"Africa strug• study in Holland. I The re she enco untered paint • gles with nature. Droughts and floods and ances• ing in the real, instead of th rough reproduc tion, to rs...

... wants, as she writes on one of her tion for the future. . . . The future works of Afri­ paintings, to “take the past and the present and COBRA became more powerful and more accessi- make the new image.” She records her concepts in ble as we started creating silk-­screen poster prints, Pops...

... (painting) student in the Michaelis School of Fine Art, culture. His work challenges the Euro-American Cape Town. Spring/Summer 2001 Nka .61 Copyright © 2001 Nka: Journal...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu In February 2020, the author spent a day with Penny Siopis in her studio at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, to discuss the artist’s new ink and wood-glue paintings, which she adopted in 2008 as her primary painting medium. This new direction is quite...

...Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons Cullen Washington’s work exudes energy, rawness, and a visceral urban vibe, manifesting a fighting engagement with painting practice, painting history, and painting’s entrapments and luring out into the open the hidden implications of masculinity and race versus...

... of one body over another. Everything Matters presents a selection of Poynton’s single- and multiple-figure paintings to address the depicted postures, expressions, and possible iconographic and historical elements in each painting, along with similar details supplied by artist and viewer, all of which...

... devastated Detroit and Newark, NJ, she painted Die expressly for the show. The wall-size canvas depicts an interracial cast of clean-cut antagonists trying to kill one another. Although the painting represented the kind of large-scale, politically motivated figuration that had been out of favor since...