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Friday, 24 March 2023

Artlyst: Black Artists From The American South Royal Academy

My latest review for Artlyst is on Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South at the Royal Academy of Arts:

"Whether reaching back to African healing traditions or Southern Christianity, spirituality is the soil within which the artwork displayed here was seeded. Sometimes explicit, as with Joe Minter’s ‘And He Hung His Head and Died’, where figures made from industrial brackets for shelving are set against black metal crosses that represent the three crosses on Calvary, or Mary T Smith’s ‘He’ in which a wooden board with rusted nails, a tyre rim and a sign painted with the word ‘HE’ forms a crucifix. At other times, implicit in works where inspired choices have been made to creatively combine found objects in ways which speak emotively to the hell that has often been the collective experience of the black community as with Lonnie Holley’s ‘Copying the Rock’ or Joe Light’s ‘Blue River Mountain’, where the river represents hope in response to mental distress."

See also my review of We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South for Church Times and Cosmic Patches And Quilts Five Exhibitions for Artlyst.

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