My mood, mode and emotion right now...

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Michael Bevilacqua “Corrosions of Conformity” at Gering & Lopez

GERING & LOPEZ GALLERY is pleased to present Corrosions of Conformity, a solo exhibition of work by New York-based artist Michael Bevilacqua. Bevilacqua’s practice of recycling materials he has used or images he has seen is evident in the exhibition, as key motifs frequently resurface throughout his work. The same icon takes on new meaning in different settings, corroding the original message. His work is abstract, but routed firmly in experience.
This is Bevilacqua’s first solo exhibition

via: HYPEBEAST

Hands Down...

Takashi Murakami rocked a Dee & Ricky tie made completely out of legos...

OWWW.

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AARON DOUGLAS (Modernist/Philanthropist/Educator/SuperDOPE!)

Aaron Douglas is a gem of the Harlem Renaissance. His artwork personified the resiliency and tenacity that was the essence of African America in the 1920's. He was born just before the turn of the century, 1899 in Topeka, Kansas. He used his love for the arts to establish himself as an local painter, later attaining a M.F.A. from University of Nebraska in 1922.

Be that a success in itself, he began to teach arts in nearby Lincoln High School and soon after moved to Harlem, then epicenter of black thought, to test the waters. He left with no inclintation as to whether he would find work as an artist or if he did, whether his work would be accepted by those who had namesakes. Joining the New Negro Movement of the Harlem Renaissance, he flourished and his pictures last as both relics of that era and examples by which many artist follow to this day.

As a Modern artist he put the art world on its ear by combining the themes of slavery, black empowerment and the more contemporary ideas of industry, self image and racial and social identity. His work was featured in publications from Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, social magazines of the period and his work has been prominently displayed throughout Fisk University and its varying departments. I visited the Smithsonian this summer and was blown away.

Put simply, He's SUPERDOPE! If you can, check him out @:http://www.aarondouglas.ku.edu/

Funeral Procession (1950s) probably seen it on the Cosby Show

The Creation

Building More Stately Mansions (1944)

"Towers"

Emperor Jones (1933) Artwork... Shouts to Bro. Robeson (R.I.P.) he was too talented...

Smithisonian Pics Soon I Means That...

Im in DC and in my rush to be the coolest...I went to the Smithsonian Potrait Museum in DC. Pics after I touch down in NY!... (tell me I cant take no pics in a museum with no phlash photography... Smithsonian, tell me how my ass taste! lol *sidebar: shaq is a fool!)