• Suné Woods, Traveling Like the Light, 2015

    Suné Woods, Traveling Like the Light, 2015

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LA Blacksmith

10 Sep 2019 – 16 Feb 2020

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Tuesday
10:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 17:00
Thursday
10:00 – 17:00
Friday
10:00 – 17:00
Saturday
10:00 – 17:00
Sunday
10:00 – 17:00

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California African American Museum

Los Angeles
California, United States

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For decades black artists in Los Angeles have worked with metal for its historic and symbolic significance, as well as for other sociocultural, political, and practical considerations: LA Blacksmith highlights this tradition.

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Beginning with Beulah Woodard's homages to African mask making, LA Blacksmith examines how the Watts Rebellion and other political and aesthetic ideas shaped midcentury metalwork. Contemporary artists explore metal as appropriation, power, and play in twenty-first century Los Angeles. For these artists, metalwork layers the tension between tradition and resistance, preciousness and posture, as well as the sacred and the profane.

CuratorsToggle

jill moniz

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Gerard Stripling

Suné Woods

Kehinde Wiley

Joseph Beckles

John Riddle

John Outterbridge

Duane Paul

Charla Elizabeth

Kendell Carter

Melvin Edwards

Betye Saar

Ed Love

Glen Wilson

Beulah Woodard

Alison Saar

Artis Lane

Maren Hassinger

Charles Dickson

Adrienne DeVine

Kori Newkirk

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