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1. Michelle Kumata

     this article originally appeared in a shorter version here http://www.artaccess.com/articles/12634620   Bonfire Gallery “Michelle Kumata: Regeneration” to March 26   We are compelled to enter “Regeneration,” Michelle Kumata’s exhibition at the Bonfire Gallery by the banners in the gallery windows.   In the exhibition, Kumata is addressing the difficult subject of the long term […]

   This entry was posted on March 8, 2022 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in War, Contemporary Asian American Art, Uncategorized.

   Tags: ", "Regeneration, Belluvue Art Museum, Bonfire Gallery, Incarceration of Japanese in World War II, Michelle Kumata

2. Carrie Mae Weems The Shape of Things

   Carrie Mae Weems the Shape 0f Things

   This entry was posted on January 5, 2022 and is filed under African American history, Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized.

   Tags: ", "The Shape of Things, Carrie Mae Weems, Memorial, Migration, Park Avenue Armory, protest, Racism

3. Breathe! at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and several provocative new shows at the Henry Art Gallery

   Provocative artists in several shows at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and the Henry Art Gallery

   This entry was posted on April 14, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized.

   Tags: ", "Illustrating Injustice, "Plural Possibilities and the Female Body, "We Own Our Work", Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, bambitchell: Bugs and Beasts Before the Law, Beth Theilen, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Cheri Gaulke and Sue Maberry, Danny Lyon, Donald Byrd, Firelei Baez, Fred hagstrom, Henry Art Gallery, Honore Daumier, Hostile Terrain, Humaira Abid, Linda Wolf, Michelle Kumata, Ria Brodell, Roger Shimomura, The Power of Print", Washington State History Museum

4. Benny Andrews: The Bicentennial Series predicts America Today *

   Benny Andrews Bicentennial Series created in the early 1970s predicts the disfunction of our nation today.

   This entry was posted on February 24, 2017 and is filed under African American fiction, Arican American history, Art and Activism, Art of Democracy, Black Art, Black HIstory Month, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized.

   Tags: ", "Liberty, Benny Andrews, Michel Rosenfeld Gallery, The Bicentennial Series

5. “Our America” Abstraction and Identity

   Is abstraction an elite practice that denies identity? Abstract art is rarely what it seems to be. To stop at a formal analysis of such work misses its context, meaning and significance.

   This entry was posted on March 10, 2014 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Latino Art, Uncategorized.

   Tags: ", "cubism and abstract art", "Our America The Latino Presence in American Art, "Our America", abstract art, Alfred Barr, Bojorquez, Carmen Herrera, Carmen Ramos, Freddy Rodriguez, Jesse Amado, Joaquin Torres- Garcia, Latino art, Olga Albizu, Ruben Trajo, Tarsilo da Amaral

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