When artist Mavis Pusey died in 2019 at 90, she was living at the home of her caregiver in rural Virginia. Her bold, singular ...

All three artists' work were not really accepted because in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s the world was not focusing on Black artists.” Sanford specializes in presenting exceptional group shows.

A central theme of the exhibition is the power of abstract art as a political choice as well as a personal statement for generations of black artists. The freedoms of postwar abstraction took on ...

Three Black artists represented in The Shape of Abstraction will discuss current dialogues surrounding abstract art at the Saint Louis Art Museum on Friday, February 21 at 7 pm. The program is ...

Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) is a famous Black female artist with a knack for combining abstract and figurative styles, plus African and Mexican art traditions, to create sculptures and prints ...

Since the famous pioneers in abstract art, such as Wassily Kandinsky and Jackson Pollock, were white, black artists who pursued work in these directions often were accused of being derivative.

As we enter International Black Women’s History Month, Black art has always been a means of documenting and creating history, putting out powerful stories that depict Black women’s experiences ...

Last April, Simone Leigh, 55, the first Black woman to have her work shown at the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, filled the venue with towering abstract sculptures of Black female forms ...

Spotlighting artists like Sam Gilliam, Felrath Hines and Joe Overstreet, “Innervisions” underscores the breadth of Black abstract art since the 1950s.

James Little, one of the many Black artists she championed, called her “a lover of art and people without prejudice.” via Grace Hopkins April Kingsley was born on Feb. 16, 1941, in Queens.