Silver Linings: Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection
Silver Linings: Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection highlights the works of masters, pioneers, and trailblazers who anchor the collection of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. The nearly forty works in the exhibition represent a variety of mediums and techniques including painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed-media collage, prints, and photographs. The works are divided into five sections that focus on the Spiral Group, abstraction, early figuration, contemporary photography, and contemporary figuration.
The exhibition features works by a range of artists including Amalia Amaki, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Firelei B谩ez, Herman 鈥淜ofi鈥� Bailey, Romare Bearden, Betty Blayton, Beverly Buchanan, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Catlett, Floyd Coleman, Renee Cox, Myra Greene, Sam Gilliam, Glenn Ligon, Howardena Pindell, Lucille Malkia Roberts, Deborah Roberts, Faith Ringgold, Nellie Mae Rowe, Lorna Simpson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Lina Iris Viktor, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff.
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Silver Linings: Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection highlights the works of masters, pioneers, and trailblazers who anchor the collection of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. The nearly forty works in the exhibition represent a variety of mediums and techniques including painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed-media collage, prints, and photographs. The works are divided into five sections that focus on the Spiral Group, abstraction, early figuration, contemporary photography, and contemporary figuration.
The exhibition features works by a range of artists including Amalia Amaki, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Firelei B谩ez, Herman 鈥淜ofi鈥� Bailey, Romare Bearden, Betty Blayton, Beverly Buchanan, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Catlett, Floyd Coleman, Renee Cox, Myra Greene, Sam Gilliam, Glenn Ligon, Howardena Pindell, Lucille Malkia Roberts, Deborah Roberts, Faith Ringgold, Nellie Mae Rowe, Lorna Simpson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Lina Iris Viktor, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff.
Artists on show
- Amalia Amaki
- Benny Andrews
- Betty Blayton
- Beverly Buchanan
- Carrie Mae Weems
- Charles White
- Deborah Roberts
- Elizabeth Catlett
- Emma Amos
- Faith Ringgold
- Firelei Báez
- Floyd Coleman
- Glenn Ligon
- Hale Woodruff
- Henry Ossawa Tanner
- Herman Kofi Bailey
- Howardena Pindell
- Lina Iris Viktor
- Lorna Simpson
- Lucille Malkia Roberts
- Myra Greene
- Nellie Mae Rowe
- Renee Cox
- Romare Bearden
- Sam Gilliam
- Selma Burke
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