{"id":2799,"date":"2018-05-03T19:02:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T19:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media-archive.blackartinamerica.com\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2018-05-03T19:15:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T19:15:38","slug":"joe-overstreet-innovation-of-flight-paintings-1967-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthexhibitions.org\/media-archive\/?p=2799","title":{"rendered":"Joe Overstreet, Innovation of Flight: Paintings 1967 \u2013 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Overstreet, Innovation of Flight: Paintings 1967-1972<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

Eric Firestone Gallery<\/h1>\n

March 1 \u2013 May 5, 2018<\/h3>\n
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HooDoo Mandala, 1970, acrylic on constructed canvas, 90 x 89.5 inches<\/p><\/div>\n

Eric Firestone Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition: Joe Overstreet, Innovation of Flight<\/em>: Paintings 1967-72<\/strong>, on view from March 1 through May 5, 2018, and guest curated by Horace Brockington. The exhibition will focus on Overstreet\u2019s \u201cFlight Patterns\u201d series: suspended canvases made in the early 1970s. A select group of shaped canvas constructions from the late 1960s will also be on view. This is the first major survey of Overstreet\u2019s early work in decades. With this exhibition, Eric Firestone Gallery announces the representation of artist Joe Overstreet.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is an opportunity to revisit a radical body of work made nearly 50 years ago, and rarely seen today. In them, the language of geometric abstract painting is re-imagined into monumental installations that tell stories about the painful realities of African American history through innovative spatial structures.<\/p>\n