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Tag: Black Artists

Somebody Else’s Muse by Rolake Osabia

24th August 202224th August 2022  Rolake Osabia

In this beautifully evocative essay, Rolake Osabia reflects on her own practice as an artist and painter of portraiture, and describes what it felt like to relinquish control, have her own portrait painted, and become somebody else’s muse.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: art, Black Artists, British Black Women artists, Caribbean artists, Cece Philips, paintings, portraiture, Rolake Osabia, self-portrait, women artists, Women in the Arts

With the End in Mind by Reginald Sylvester II at Maximillian William, London

10th August 202114th June 2022  Ifeanyi Awachie

Reginald Sylvester II’s With the End in Mind showcases rich and affective abstract works, which both speak to and stand out among current exhibitions of Black art, writes our contributor Ifeanyi Awachie.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Abstract art, abstract painting, Allie Biswas, Amok Boafo, Black Artists, Black Lives Matter, Edouard Glissant, Frank B Wilderson, Frank Bowling, Function UK, Ifeanyi Awachie, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Maximillian William Gallery, Modal painting, painting, Reginald Sylvester II, Sampada Aranke, With the End in Mind

They Come to You, Embodying Anew at the Maximillian William, London

30th June 20212nd July 2021  Shameekia Shantel Johnson

In Maximillian William’s recent exhibition, Embodying Anew, work by Thaddeus Moseley, Magdalene Odundo and Simone Leigh challenges Western appropriation of African aesthetics and celebrates the cultural practices of indigenous Africa.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: African aesthetics, Bird in Space, Black Artists, BLM, BLM 2020, Brancusi, Kara Walker, Magdalene Odundo, Maximillian William Gallery, Repetitive Reference, sculpture, Simone Leigh, Thaddeus Mosley
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    By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
  • Picturing Loss: On Francesca Woodman by Lisa Goodrum
    By Lisa Goodrum
  • Beyond the Confines of Nell Brookfield’s Canvas
    By Rachel Ashenden
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