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Red House by Sonya Clark6/8/2023 Americans of African descent-and particularly black women-managed to preserve the culture of their ancestry, often at their own peril, by passing their histories down through craft-based folk traditions. The first approach, rooted in American history from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, grew out of the horrific repression of slavery, when little formal education was available to black people living in the United States. The exhibition traces two artistic threads that entwined to produce groundbreaking and evocative works across a range of mediums, which continue to influence artistic dialogue today. The 37 artists in POWER draw into focus their struggle to establish themselves as equal players on the uneven field of the American republic. Titled after the 1970 gospel song by Sister Gertrude Morgan, the exhibition begins with artists born soon after the Civil War and continues to the present, weaving together fine and folk art traditions to explore how artists have engaged issues of race, gender, and class against our evolving cultural and artistic landscape. Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, is proud to present POWER, an exhibition curated by Todd Levin that surveys the work of African American women artists from the nineteenth century to now. Work By African American Women From The Nineteenth Century To Now
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