#ellsworth ausby

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"'Last Day in Lagos' spotlights a body of work made while @marilyn.nance served as the photographer for the US contingent of the North American delegation. At the time that she attended FESTAC, it was her first journey outside the US. Capturing the pulsing ceremonies and cheering crowds; among her subjects are fellow artists, such as Ellsworth Ausby, Valerie Maynard, and Wadsworth Jarrell; cultural leaders and activists, like Distinguished Elder Queen Mother Audley Moore and Fela Kuti; and internationally acclaimed performers, including Miriam Makeba, Stevie Wonder and Sun Ra…"⁠ ⁠ See photos + rich captions from new release 'Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos' today @guardian via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Also: Celebrate Nigerian Independence Day today, Saturday, October 1 at 12 PM at @cara_the_org — where Nance will launch the book, edited by Oluremi C. Onabanjo. ⁠ ⁠ Foreword by Julie Mehretu. Text by Antawan I. Byrd, Uchenna Ikonne, Tsitsi Ella Jaji. Afterword by Marilyn Nance. Bibliography by Zakiya Collier, Chisom Ilogu.⁠ ⁠ The Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA)⁠ Saturday, October 1, 2022: 12 PM⁠ 225 West 13th Street⁠ New York, NY 10011⁠ ⁠ #marilynnancephotoarchive #marilynnance #lastdayinlagos #festac77 @festac77archive @oluremi.onabanjo @fourthwall_books⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CjLHM1yMr62/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#marilynnancephotoarchive #marilynnance #lastdayinlagos #festac77

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Art in the Drawers

In our basement annex, there are over 100 map drawers containing various and sundry items from college party posters to 19th century maps of Texas to a poster signed by Nelson Mandela.

Since it is in the basement and map folders are very unwieldy, I rarely go down there hunting for blog material. Today, a patron forced my hand.

Below are an assortment of posters from the Institute for the Arts / Rice Museum. They range in date from 1971 to 1983.

The majority of items that document the time that the de Menils spent at Rice live at the Menil Collection archives. We only have a taste of what they left behind.

Dominique de Menil preparing for the Max Ernst exhibit, 1972

#university archives #beaumont newhall #daniel larue johnson #dominique de menil #ellsworth ausby #frank bowling #joe overstreet #larry rivers #peter bradley #rice museum #william christenberry #william williams

[mtaartsdesign]

Ellsworth Ausby's (1942 - 2011) artwork explored the “infinite possibilities of two-dimensional space.” In the 1970's, Ausby created the paintings series “Space Odyssey,” reflecting his connection to Sun Ra, and his interest in exploring how painting, and the relationships between forms, exists in and informs its environment. He developed a vocabulary of geometric forms: triangles and horizontal bands, organized like minimalist punctuation that suggest rhythms and movement through time and space. His #MTAArts permanent project "Space Odyssey" (2004) at the Marcy Avenue (J) station in Brooklyn, explores the relationship people have with the universe. The brilliantly colored forms evoke the feeling of the swirling cosmos. Ausby said he is particularly attracted by "the idea of traveling in infinite space, which is as a passenger on the earth express line, experienced through the cycle of the seasons." Ausby's paintings from the 1960s and 70s are on view in “Ellsworth Ausby: Somewhere in Space,” at Eric Firestone Gallery through October 30.

#mtaarts #ellsworthausby

[asfaltics]

found

1933 . cover, detail . Afro-American Artists, New York and Boston (1970) . 20211114

background to this volume is told by Jasmine Liu in “Black Power in Print Illuminates the Rich Artistic Legacy of the Movement” at Hyperallergic (October 13, 2021) : here and at the online exhibit Black Power in Print The exhibition catalogue is out of print; its introduction (by Edmund Barry Gaither) is available here.

the artists in the exhibition (and this catalogue) were (are) — Boston / Ronald Boutte; Calvin Burnett, Dana C. Chandler, Jr.; Henry DeLeon; Milton Johnson; Lois Marilou Jones; Harriet Kennedy; Edward McCluney, Jr.; Jerry Pinkney; Stanley Pinckney (Babaluaiye S. Délé); Gary Rickson; Al Smith; Richard Stroud; Lovett Thompson; Richard Waters; John Wilson; Ellen Banks; Richard Yarde New York / Emma Amos; Benny Andrews; Ellsworth Ausby; Malcolm Bailey; Romare Bearden; Robert Blackburn; Betty Blayton; Lynn Bowers; Frank Bowling; Marvin Brown; John Chandler; Edward Clark; Cliff Joseph; Eldzier Cortor; Ernest Crichlow; Emilio Cruz; Avel de Knight; James Denmark; Reginald Gammon; Felrath Hines; Alvin Hollingsworth; Bill Howell; Zell Ingram; Gerald Jackson; Daniel L. Johnson; Benjamin Jones; Tonnie Jones; Jacob Lawrence; Hughie Lee-Smith; Norman Lewis; Tom Lloyd; Alvin D. Loving, Jr.; Richard Mayhew; Algernon Miller; Joseph Overstreet; Louise Parks; John W. Rohden; Barbara Chase Riboud; Bill Rivers; Mahler Ryder; Raymond Saunders; Thomas Sills; Vincent Smith; Alma Thomas; Bob Thompson; Russ Thompson, Lloyd Toone; Luther Van; Paul Waters; Jack White; Yvonne Williams; Hale Woodruff

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found this copy, weathered mildewed broken, on the street in Allston (Boston) during this afternoon’s walk.  

#for completeness’s sake

[sbowen]

Ellsworth Ausby

Ellsworth (the subject of the recent show Ellsworth Ausby: Somewhere in Space,” paintings from the 1960s and 70s, at Eric Firestone Gallery) was a significant African American artist whose works were concerned with exploring the “infinite possibilities of two-dimensional space.” He experimented with supports and surfaces, creating multi-part shaped canvas constructions arranged directly on the…

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