October 15, 2021–January 9, 2022
Live via Zoom
“The…most perplexing problem is the evident pressure exerted on the Negro artist to use his art as an instrument to mirror the social injustices inflicted upon his people,” reads Romare Bearden’s seminal 1946 essay “The Negro Artist’s Dilemma.” We’ll revisit the artist’s perspective in conversation with conceptual and abstract artists of today, including the celebrated conceptual artist Lorraine O’Grady, abstract artist Suzanne Jackson, and abstract and calligraphy artist Shinique Smith.
This program is presented by the American Federation of Arts and the Gibbes Museum of Art on the occasion of the exhibition Romare Bearden: Abstraction.
The American Federation of Arts is pleased to present the national tour of the exhibition Romare Bearden: Abstraction.
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
October 15, 2021–January 9, 2022
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
February 5–May 15, 2022
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
June 25–September 18, 2022
Romare Bearden: Abstraction is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY.
The national tour of Romare Bearden: Abstraction is sponsored by Morgan Stanley.
