Welcome to my series "Teach about Black Artists"
I have created a series of Art lessons inspired Black and Brown Contemporary Artist to inspire the artist in your students. I want to make art from all cultures with all of its unique qualities available to all schools. My hope is that this promotes not only awareness of the different styles of art but also an appreciation for the many ways people express themselves. In this way, perhaps Dr. Montessori's vision for peace through children can become a reality.
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Howardena Pindell, Untitled, 2010.
Today's Featured Artist is Howardena Pindell
Howardena Pindell is an American artist, curator, and educator. She is known as a painter and mixed media artist, her work explores texture, color, structures, and the process of making art; it is often political, addressing the intersecting issues of racism, feminism, violence, slavery, and exploitation. She is known for the wide variety of techniques and materials used in her artwork; she has created abstract paintings, collages, "video drawings," and "process art."
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Pindell often employs lengthy, metaphorical processes of destruction/reconstruction. She cuts canvases in strips and sews them back together, building up surfaces in elaborate stages. She paints or draws on sheets of paper, punches out dots from the paper using a paper hole punch, drops the dots onto her canvas, and finally squeegees paint through the “stencil” left in the paper from which she had punched the dots. Almost invariably, her paintings are installed unstretched, held to the wall merely by the strength of a few finishing nails. The artist’s fascination with gridded, serialized imagery, along with surface texture appears throughout her oeuvre.
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Autobiography: The Search (Chrysalis/Meditation, Positive/Negative)
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