'Shared Visions' focuses on Black portraits, a theme that has shown up in exhibits at the PMA, Barnes, the Met, and beyond.
'Shared Visions' focuses on Black portraits, a theme that has shown up in exhibits at the PMA, Barnes, the Met, and beyond.
The thoughtfulness emanates through “Shared Visions,” a tender curation of Pounder’s vast art collection in its final month at AAMP. Pounder, 72, who played the Civil Rights activist Anna Hedgeman in Netflix’sis an avid collector of contemporary Black artists hailing from the United States and the Caribbean, as well as European and African countries.experience, each one starring subjects in varying shades of brown in striking poses that are astute, regal, and poignant.
“When you come off the elevator and see them looking, they have not a care of what you think they are,” Duckett said, challenging the stereotype. “They will not be defined by what you think of them.”, a two-panel piece by Jamaican artist Greg Bailey. In it, a couple living through the isolation of COVID-19 is sitting on a worn leather couch separated by their aggravation. Although together, they appear lonely and sad, a statement on modern relationships.
Portraiture centering the Black experience has been the draw of several art shows in Philadelphia’s art museums and beyond.
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