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AFRICOBRA 50 : Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607

Past exhibition
29 September - 27 October 2018
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Wadsworth Jarrell, Extolling a Djwoke Headdress, 1993
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Wadsworth Jarrell, Extolling a Djwoke Headdress, 1993
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Wadsworth Jarrell USA, b. 1929

Extolling a Djwoke Headdress, 1993
Acrylic, wood, and canvas
87 x 37 x 17 in
221 x 94 x 43.2 cm
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Sherman Beck, Then & Now, 1972/2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Sherman Beck, Then & Now, 1972/2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Sherman Beck, Then & Now, 1972/2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Sherman Beck, Then & Now, 1972/2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) Sherman Beck, Then & Now, 1972/2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 6 ) Sherman Beck, Then & Now, 1972/2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 7 ) Sherman Beck, Then & Now, 1972/2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 8 ) Sherman Beck, Then & Now, 1972/2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 9 ) Sherman Beck, Then & Now, 1972/2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 10 ) Sherman Beck, Then & Now, 1972/2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 11 ) Sherman Beck, Then & Now, 1972/2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 12 ) Sherman Beck, Then & Now, 1972/2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 13 ) Sherman Beck, Then & Now, 1972/2015
Here we see Jarrell again expanding his aesthetic language, taking his sculptural paintings down off the wall and transforming them into painterly sculptures. In this work we see an idealized,...
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Here we see Jarrell again expanding his aesthetic language, taking his sculptural paintings down off the wall and transforming them into painterly sculptures. In this work we see an idealized, monumental vision of a hair pick, enhanced by fiurative and abstract references to African heritage, and brought to life through many of Jarrell's signature visual elements, such as impasto wavy lines and African symbology.

Artist Biography
Wadsworth Jarrell (b. 1929, United States) is a painter, sculptor, and co-founder of the Black Arts collective AFRICOBRA. Recent exhibitions include AFRICOBRA: Nation Time, an official collateral exhibition of the 2019 Venice Biennale, and AFRICOBRA: Messages to the People at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, and Soul of a Nation, which originated at the Tate Modern.

Born in Albany, Georgia, Jarrell was raised on a working farm. Inspired by the art in the Saturday Evening Post, he hoped to become an illustrator. He joined the US Army after high school and became the company artist for his unit. After the army, Jarrell moved to Chicago. While working at the International Paint factory, he enrolled in night classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Initially focused on design and illustration, he switched his attention to fine art after visiting various Chicago art museums. Back in Georgia, blacks had not been allowed inside museums. Seeing masterpieces for the first time in person inspired Jarrell. He enrolled full time at SAIC in 1954, and earned his BA in 1958.

Wadsworth has developed many distinct bodies of work, including sculptures inspired by the African cultural traditions, and a series of paintings dedicated to jazz musicians. A distinctive tool Wadsworth has used in some paintings is a brick laying trowel—something he learned to utilize in 1982, while creating a 300 foot mural at the headquarters of Westinghouse Electric Company. His work is widely collected, and is included in several important institutional collections, including that of the High Museum of Art, the National Museum of Africa American History and Culture, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
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Provenance

Africobra50, 2019, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL, United States

Exhibitions

Exhibited, Cleveland Musuem of Art, "Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell", 2017
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