Icons: Selections from The Portrait Unbound Opening
Icons: Selections from The Portrait Unbound Opening
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The Breman Museum • Atlanta, GA
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Black American Portraits Public Opening at the Spelman Museum of Fine Art
Join us for the opening reception of Black American Portraits on Friday, February 10 from 5:00PM-7:00 PM Free and Open to the Public
By Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
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Starts on Friday, February 10 · 5pm EST
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Museum of Fine Art 350 Spelman Lane Southwest Atlanta, GA 30314
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
February 8 – June 30, 2023
Black American Portraits travels to Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Featuring New Acquisitions including a New Work by Calida Rawles
Following its debut at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2021, the group exhibition Black American Portraits travels to Atlanta’s Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Co-curated by Spelman College Museum of Fine Art’s Executive Director Liz Andrews and Tate’s Britton Family Curator-at-Large Christine Y. Kim (both formerly of LACMA), the exhibition reframes portraiture to center Black American subjects, sitters and spaces – this time placing Black women portrait artists center stage.
New to the exhibition at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art will be four acquisitions: a new painting by Calida Rawles - who will celebrate her 25th anniversary as a Spelman College alumna in 2023, two works by Augusta Savage, and a photograph of Spelman Alumna Stacey Abrams by Sheila Pree Bright.
Renee Cox, The Signing, 2017, digital chromogenic print, 36 1/2 × 99 1/4 × 3 in., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Amar Singh, © Renee Cox, digital image courtesy of the artist
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Spelman College Museum of Fine ArtThe Spelman College Museum of Fine Art inspires and enriches the Spelman College community and the general public, through art by and about women of the African Diaspora.