About the Exhibition:

Hanes Art Gallery at Wake Forest University is pleased to host Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, an exhibition that highlights artists of African descent whose work explores identity, politics and art history. The exhibition will be open January 23 to March 29, 2025. 

The exhibition gathers and elevates an emerging generation of contemporary artists who are engaging with the work of their predecessors while finding different ways to address the history and meaning of Blackness in their work. The group includes well-known artists David Hammons, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, Henry Taylor and Kara Walker, as well as a younger generation gaining wider recognition, including Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Sadie Barnette, Cy Gavin, Arcmanoro Niles, Jennifer Packer and others. The survey is organized around four themes — dramatic use of color, reclamation of the color black, materiality (nontraditional materials), and an expanded idea of portraiture.

See more about the exhibit at the official website: https://www.younggiftedblack.com

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