This
exhibition presents thirty paintings, sculptures, drawings, and quilts by
self-taught contemporary African American artists to celebrate the 2014 gift to
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of works of art from the Souls Grown Deep
Foundation. The artists represented by this generous donation all hail from the
American South.
History
Refused to Die features the mixed-media art of Thornton Dial (1928–2016)—whose
monumental assemblage from 2004 provides the exhibition's title—and a selection
of the renowned quilts from Gee's Bend, Alabama, by quilters such as Annie Mae
Young (1928–2012), Lucy Mingo (born 1931), Loretta Pettway (born 1942), and
additional members of the extended Pettway family. Among other accomplished
artists to be featured are Nellie Mae Rowe (1900–1982), Lonnie Holley (born
1950), and Ronald Lockett (1965–1988).
Remarkably
diverse in media and technique, the works in this exhibition nonetheless
suggest their makers' cultural and aesthetic kinship through the use of found
and repurposed materials. Their subjects are likewise varied, rooted in
personal history and experience, regional identity—particularly common legacies
of slavery and post-Reconstruction histories of oppression under the Black
Codes and Jim Crow laws—in addition to national and international events.
Until
Sunday September 23 2018
Venue name:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
VENUE
Address: 1000 Fifth Ave
New York 10028
Cross
street: at 82nd St
Opening
hours: Mon–Thu, Sun 10am–5:30pm; Fri, Sat 10am–9pm.
Transport:
Subway: 4, 5, 6 to 86th St
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