Word: howardena
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...also been a Western convention for decades, but Edwards invests it with a rough, sinewy power, and his larger piece in the show, Homage to the Poet Léon Gontran Damas, 1978, has an almost majestic aura of open declamation. More delicate and complex in feeling is Howardena Pindell's large, irregular patch of canvas, covered with a silvery-pink crust of paint, sequins, confetti and dye, in whose nacreous surface also appears a slow twinkling of glitter. Entitled December 31, 1980: Brazil: Feast Day lemanjá, it refers to the goddess of salt water in the Brazilian...
...show that remains, there are distinguished works by such artists as Frank Bowling, Howardena Pindell and Alvin Loving. For these and other artists who stayed on, to be caught in the crossfire is rough. "The black community is completely split up over this," says Loving. "I'm black, I'm an artist, and I can't deal with all the circumstances of America's illness. I don't want to hide my art. The first mistake was going to a white institution and asking for something." But B.E.C.C.'s Benny Andrews disagrees...
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