{"id":4952,"date":"2019-03-07T11:58:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T11:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media-archive.blackartinamerica.com\/?p=4952"},"modified":"2019-03-07T11:58:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T11:58:51","slug":"plumb-line-charles-white-and-the-contemporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthexhibitions.org\/media-archive\/?p=4952","title":{"rendered":"Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary<\/h1>\n

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March 8 – August 25, 2019<\/h4>\n

curated by: Essence Harden, independent curator, and Leigh Raiford, Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley<\/h5>\n
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Greg Breda,\u00a0Untitled (Salt, woman w\/ big hat). Detail, 2013. Acrylic on mylar, 62″ x 40″. Courtesy the artist.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A prolific painter, printmaker, muralist, draftsman, and photographer whose career spanned more than half a century, Charles White\u2019s artistic portrayals of black subjects, life, and history were extensive and far-reaching.\u00a0Plumb Line<\/em>\u00a0features contemporary artists whose work in the realm of black individual and collective life resonates with White\u2019s profound and continuing influence.<\/p>\n

From abstraction to figuration, the artists of\u00a0Plumb Line,<\/em>\u00a0including Sadie Barnette, Diedrick Brackens, Greg Breda, Alfred Conteh, Kenturah Davis, Kohshin Finley, Yashua Klos and Toyin Ojih Odutola, find conversation with White through the largesse of their canvases, expansive renderings of black skin and black community, and in the treatment of black past and presence in ways that are both epic and intimate.<\/p>\n

The plumb line, an architectural tool used to determine verticality, is a featured element in White\u2019s\u00a0Birmingham Totem<\/em>, suggesting the work of black artists as architects of change. White himself can also be considered an artistic plumb line: a builder of black artistic opportunities and a compass directing us toward new aesthetic, liberatory possibilities.<\/p>\n

Plumb Line<\/em>\u00a0is curated by Essence Harden, independent curator, and Leigh Raiford, Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, for the California African American Museum. The exhibition is presented as a companion to the LACMA exhibitions\u00a0Charles White: A Retrospective<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Life Model: Charles White and his Students<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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related programs<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Curatorial Walkthrough: Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary<\/h3>\n

March 9, 2019<\/h4>\n

3:00 – 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop March 2019<\/h3>\n

March 20, 2019<\/h4>\n

7:00 – 9:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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CAAM Reads! Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles<\/h3>\n

April 7, 2019<\/h4>\n

3:00 – 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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CAAM Reads! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement<\/h3>\n

May 5, 2019<\/h4>\n

3:00 – 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Docent Led Tour of Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary<\/h3>\n

May 11, 2019<\/h4>\n

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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CAAM Reads! The New Negro<\/h3>\n

June 9, 2019<\/h4>\n

3:00 – 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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