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Creating Community. Cinque Gallery Artists
The Art Students League of New York, in partnership with the Romare Bearden Foundation, is honored to present Creating Community. Cinque Gallery Artists on view May 3鈥揓uly 4, 2021. The exhibition is the first introductory survey to focus on Cinque Gallery, the innovative non-profit artists鈥� space dedicated to promoting the achievements of Black artists from its founding in 1969 until its closure in 2004. The exhibition celebrates a diverse selection of late twentieth century and contemporary artists who participated in this pioneering collaborative enterprise and highlights the interconnected histories of the artists of Cinque Gallery and The Art Students League.
Founded in 1969 by three master League artists, Romare Bearden (1911 鈥� 1988), Ernest Crichlow (1914 鈥� 2005), and Norman Lewis (1909 鈥� 1979), Cinque Gallery was created to 鈥減rovide a place where the works of unknown, and neglected artists of talent鈥︹�� primarily minority artists 鈥渨ould not only be shown but nurtured and developed.鈥� (Excerpts. 1969 Cinque Gallery by-laws) The artist-led, nonprofit space fostered a mutually supportive community of artists young and mature, exhibiting the work of new and established African American artists for nearly four decades.
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The Art Students League of New York, in partnership with the Romare Bearden Foundation, is honored to present Creating Community. Cinque Gallery Artists on view May 3鈥揓uly 4, 2021. The exhibition is the first introductory survey to focus on Cinque Gallery, the innovative non-profit artists鈥� space dedicated to promoting the achievements of Black artists from its founding in 1969 until its closure in 2004. The exhibition celebrates a diverse selection of late twentieth century and contemporary artists who participated in this pioneering collaborative enterprise and highlights the interconnected histories of the artists of Cinque Gallery and The Art Students League.
Founded in 1969 by three master League artists, Romare Bearden (1911 鈥� 1988), Ernest Crichlow (1914 鈥� 2005), and Norman Lewis (1909 鈥� 1979), Cinque Gallery was created to 鈥減rovide a place where the works of unknown, and neglected artists of talent鈥︹�� primarily minority artists 鈥渨ould not only be shown but nurtured and developed.鈥� (Excerpts. 1969 Cinque Gallery by-laws) The artist-led, nonprofit space fostered a mutually supportive community of artists young and mature, exhibiting the work of new and established African American artists for nearly four decades.
Artists on show
- Ademola Olugebefola
- Alvin Loving
- Ann Tanksley
- Benjamin Wigfall
- Benny Andrews
- Betty Blayton
- Bill Hutson
- Camille Billops
- Charles Alston
- Charles White
- Cynthia Hawkins
- Dawoud Bey
- Debra Priestly
- Edward Clark
- Elizabeth Catlett
- Emma Amos
- Ernest Crichlow
- Frank Bowling
- Frank Wimberley
- Hale Woodruff
- Howard McCalebb
- Hughie Lee-Smith
- Mavis Pusey
- Mel Edwards
- Mildred Thompson
- Mohammed Omar Khalil
- Nanette Carter
- Norma Morgan
- Norman Lewis
- Otto Neals
- Raymond Grist
- Richard Mayhew
- Robert Blackburn
- Robin Holder
- Romare Bearden
- Sam Gilliam
- Tom Edwards
- Tom Feelings
- Vivian E. Browne
- Whitfield Lovell
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