The artist Ronald Lockett died in 1998 from AIDS-related complications when he was thirty-two. He was born in Bessemer, Alabama, where he also died. During his life, he constructed tableaus, paintings, and assemblages that referenced traps and hunting, and in doing so, explored themes of life, death, cruelty, and survival. He did not attend art school, but instead learned in the studio of his... Source ..read more

The artist Ronald Lockett died in 1998 from AIDS-related complications when he was thirty-two. He was born in Bessemer, Alabama, where he also died. During his life, he constructed tableaus, paintings, and assemblages that referenced traps and hunting, and in doing so, explored themes of life, death, cruelty, and survival. He did not attend art school, but instead learned in the studio of his... Source ..read more

Diego Rivera’s America makes its final stop at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The Museum touts the opportunity to showcase a high-profile, large-scale exhibition by welcoming the rare works to ‘the heartland’— promising a critical and contemporary interpretation of 130 of Rivera’s most significant pieces created from the 1920s to the 1940s. Curated by James Oles... Source ..read more

Can flatness live through our century? Much of postwar abstraction benefited from a relationship with the Real that was based on the precondition of a truly flat surface. This surface was distinguished from a coat of paint on a given wall by a philosophical investment in one man’s vision, his heroic perseverance in the face of kitsch and Social Realism, his genius, his name. Some of today’s most... Source ..read more

Curated by Donovan Johnson and Seph Rodney at the new Johnson Lowe Gallery in Atlanta, The Alchemists brings together an amalgamation of works that unearths the transformation of the mundane into extraordinary forms. Of the twenty-nine participating artists, many utilize a practice within the traditions of painting, collage, assemblage, and drawing. With exceptional diversity—both in breadth and... Source ..read more

In 2008, Omari Booker entered a fifteen-year prison sentence at Charles B. Bass Correctional Complex in Nashville, Tennessee. Booker pled guilty to a minor drug possession charge expecting probation. After serving three and a half of the fifteen years, he was released on parole. At the time, his work on the Fifteen exhibition had already begun with a portrait of Samuel Dunson, Booker’s mentor... Source ..read more

As I sit down to write this, I’m looking at the small assemblage I acquired from Alex Kimball a few months ago. It’s composed of a mysterious, thin surface fastened to a plastic carton, dabbed with thick paint and garnished with two dried walnut shells. The brittle, artificial plastic compliments the synthetic blues and pinks of the paint; a wooden scrap peeks through the circular openings in the... Source ..read more

Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship for Emerging Writers of Color National and Online Deadline: May 1, 2023 The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy at the Japanese American National Museum (NCPD@JANM) presents the Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship. This year’s inaugural fellowship provides two $5,000 unrestricted awards to promising writers of color who are focused on art... Source ..read more

Sasha Wortzel’s exhibition Dreams of Unknown Islands: St. Augustine is on view at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum. This exhibition is a multidisciplinary, immersive experience that utilizes sound, sculpture, and projection to craft a narrative about the active decline of the Florida landscape. Housed in two rooms and comprised of seventeen works, the show is an inspiring and sobering take on... Source ..read more

The solo exhibition of mid-career Canadian artist Zachari Logan titled The Blooming Skin at Wolfgang Gallery in Atlanta explores the relationship between humans and nature as rendered in immaculate pastel, graphite, red and blue pencil drawings, and acrylic and pastel paintings in scales ranging from minute to life-size. Located within the Back Gallery, this exhibition is found after walking past... Source ..read more