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Richard Hunt and Titus Kaphar: Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus: The Cleveland Museum of Art

Past exhibition
20 February - 26 June 2022
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Overview
Richard Hunt, Forms Carried Aloft, No. 2, 1960. Brazed and welded steel; h. 128.2 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Courtesy of the artist.

Richard Hunt, Forms Carried Aloft, No. 2, 1960. Brazed and welded steel; h. 128.2 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Courtesy of the artist.

Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus  puts art from the CMA’s permanent collection in conversation with a vanguard of emerging and mid-career Black artists, as each explores the fundaments of art making, embracing and challenging art history. The connections between the artworks and the themes in this exhibition are best described both as currents, which are more predictable and easier to trace, and as constellations, which are less predictable and more difficult to follow. Intimate in scale, yet broad in scope, Currents and Constellations illuminates singular works created by Black artists working in the United States to broaden visitors’ sense of Black artistic production. In the focus gallery, five thematic groupings represent a multifaceted star, with each theme providing an accessible window into a complex idea. Then, to generate new conversations with other areas of the collection, works will be temporarily introduced in four “satellites” in the CMA’s permanent collection galleries, including American painting and sculpture, Abstract Expressionism, German Expressionism, and contemporary art.

 

Currents and Constellations includes works by Sanford Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Richard Hunt, Dawoud Bey, Lorna Simpson, Jack Whitten, Darius Steward, Kenturah Davis, Mario Moore, and Torkwase Dyson, among others—thus placing Black American art and artists at the center of a conversation about the relevance of art to life and the relevance of art history to contemporary artists.

 

Made possible with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

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Works
  • Richard Hunt, Forms Carried Aloft, No. 2, 1960. Brazed and welded steel; h. 128.2 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Courtesy of the artist.

    Richard Hunt, Forms Carried Aloft, No. 2, 1960. Brazed and welded steel; h. 128.2 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Courtesy of the artist.

  • Titus Kaphar, Shadows of Liberty, 2016. Oil and rusted nails on canvas, 274.3 x 213.4 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, Courtesy of the artist.

    Titus Kaphar, Shadows of Liberty, 2016. Oil and rusted nails on canvas, 274.3 x 213.4 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, Courtesy of the artist. 

Installation Views
  • Installation views of Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art February 20 to June 26, 2022. Images courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

    Installation views of Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art February 20 to June 26, 2022. Images courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

  • Installation views of Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art February 20 to June 26, 2022. Images courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

    Installation views of Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art February 20 to June 26, 2022. Images courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

  • Installation views of Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art February 20 to June 26, 2022. Images courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

    Installation views of Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art February 20 to June 26, 2022. Images courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

  • Installation views of Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art February 20 to June 26, 2022. Images courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

    Installation views of Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art February 20 to June 26, 2022. Images courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

  • Installation views of Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art February 20 to June 26, 2022. Images courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

    Installation views of Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art February 20 to June 26, 2022. Images courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

  • Installation views of Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art February 20 to June 26, 2022. Images courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

    Installation views of Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art February 20 to June 26, 2022. Images courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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    Titus Kaphar

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