Reclaiming the GAZE

Reclaiming the GAze

Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: Reclaiming the Gaze

Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 5:00pm
Davison Art Center
FREE!

The exhibition Reclaiming the Gaze was organized from the Davison Art Center collection by seven Wesleyan University students in the class "Advanced Themes in 20th Century Afro-American Art" taught by Professor of Art History Peter Mark. The show highlights 42 prints and photographs by African American artists from 1930 to the present day, including works by Lyle Ashton Harris '88, Romare Bearden, Glenn Ligon '82 DFA '12, Robert Pruitt, Betye Saar, and Kara Walker.

Image: Robert Pruitt (American, born 1975), Negra es Bella, 2014. Two-color lithograph. Published by Tamarind Institute. Collaborating printer: Justin Andrews. Edition of 20. Hoy Family Afro-American Visual Arts Fund and Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 2015. © Copyright Robert Pruitt (photo: Logan Bellew for Tamarind Institute).