Modern performance art is often skewered by viewers for being shallow: stirring up controversy for controversy’s sake. But occasionally, these works tap into the global zeitgeist better than any piece of traditional art. Some boundaries, no matter how uncomfortable it makes us, are meant to be crossed.
As a citizen of the Kaw Nation, Osage, Lakota, and European descent, artist Chris Pappan pays tribute to his Native American heritage through his vigorously detailed art. As an avid believer that time is a circular concept and everything comes back around, Pappan uses his art as a way to connect with his ancestors.
If you visit the Hammonds House Museum located in the historic West End area of Atlanta you will find “Rhythm of Resilience: The Artistry of Sam Middleton,” an exhibition of some of the most vibrant and eye-capturing pieces created by Sam Middleton, a Harlem native and Netherlands transplant who passed away in 2015.
As his name suggests, Hunter Blaze Pearson uses bright, blazing colors. The multidisciplinary visual artist depicts psychedelic American iconography on a variety of objects, ranging from shoes to canvases to whiskey bottles. This spring, Pearson’s “American Dream” was a part of the Brea Gallery’s 39th Annual “Made in California” exhibition, and it won the “Director’s Choice” award.
Many pieces of art can be considered out of this world, but this artist’s paintings are actually out of this world.
In 2021, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket was launched with three paintings on its exterior panels as part of the Uplift Art Program. The paintings were made with materials that would survive the journey into space and return to earth. Done in his signature finger-painting style, Amoako Boafo launched a self-portrait and portraits of his mother and childhood friend, Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, into space.
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