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LECTURE: Michael Salcman, "Contemporary African-American Art, Part 2: I am the Darker Brother"

  • Central Presbyterian Church 7308 York Road Towson, MD, 21204 United States (map)

Contemporary African-American Art, Part 2: I am the Darker Brother
Michael Salcman, art historian, poet, and neurosurgeon

The second lecture in a series on contemporary African-American art by Dr. Salcman: I am the Darker Brother will cover the recuperation of black presence from the 1980s to the present within a wide variety of representational and conceptual formats: photography (Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson); neo-expressionist and abstract painting (Basquiat and Mark Bradford); conceptual art (Fred Wilson, Glenn Ligon, Kara Walker, Theaster Gates); portraiture and landscape (Kerry James Marshall, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, Barkley Hendricks, Amy Sherald).

$15 door fee for guests and subscribers