Finding Their Way: Abstract art by Black Artists

Programming to accompany the Tangents & A Hard Line exhibition includes Finding Their Way: Abstract Art by Black Artists, a virtual discussion on ZOOM Wed. November 15th. between Dr David C. Hart, associate professor of art at CIA, and Kerry Davis a respected collector of African American art from Atlanta, Ga. Their topic of discussion will be centered historically around Davis’s collection which includes many Black artists working in abstraction and will take place as an interactive conversation between the two men referencing works from the Davis collection, followed by a Q&A period between the audience and the panelists. This will be a free virtual presentation through ZOOM and registration will be required for viewers, from the AAWR website.

David C. Hart, Ph.D. received master’s and doctorate degrees in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill specializing in the art of the African diaspora and modern and contemporary art. He is currently conducting research on Harold R. Hart, former director of the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York and painter Alma Thomas.

Kerry & C. Betty Davis have over the course of 30 years collected more than 300 objects made by Black Artists both famous and unknown This collection illustrates the trajectory of African-American art from the early 20th century to the present day and places it firmly within world art history. Their collection was part of the seenUNseen exhibition at AAWR in 2019.