Profile: Mel Edwards (1937-)
Melvin “Mel” Edwards is an American contemporary artist, teacher, and abstract steel metal sculptor. Additionally he has worked in drawing and printmaking. Continue reading Profile: Mel Edwards (1937-)
Profile: Ed Dwight (1933-)
Edward Joseph (Ed) Dwight Jr. is an American sculptor, author, and former test pilot. He is the first African American to have entered the Air Force training program from which NASA selected astronauts. Continue reading Profile: Ed Dwight (1933-)
Profile: Thornton Dial (1928-2016)
Thornton Dial was a pioneering African-American artist who came to prominence in the late 1980s. Dial’s body of work exhibits formal variety through expressive, densely composed assemblages of found materials, often executed on a monumental scale. Continue reading Profile: Thornton Dial (1928-2016)
Profile: Ulysses Davis (1913-1990)
Ulysses Davis was an African-American barber and self-taught sculptor. Davis is best known for his carvings of historical figures such as a set of mahogany busts of all the presidents (through George H. W. Bush) and similar portrait heads of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Kennedys and other leaders from the civil rights era. Continue reading Profile: Ulysses Davis (1913-1990)
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