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Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power: Tate Modern | London, UK

Past exhibition
12 July - 22 October 2017
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Gerald Williams, Nation Time 1969, acrylic paint on canvas, 121.9 × 142.2 cm © Gerald Williams, courtesy Johnson Publishing Company, LLC. All rights reserved

Gerald Williams, Nation Time 1969, acrylic paint on canvas, 121.9 × 142.2 cm

© Gerald Williams, courtesy Johnson Publishing Company, LLC. All rights reserved

Williams’ work will be featured in the Tate Modern’s current exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. 

 

The exhibition explores how major social and political issues played out among and beyond African American artists from 1963 to 1983, featuring more than 150 works by over 60 artists, many on display in the UK for the first time. Including Chicago’s AfriCOBRA, a group formed in the late 1960s, by Gerald Williams, Jeff Donaldson, Jae Jarrell, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Nelson Stevens and Wadsworth Jarrell. Their striking works offered a unique aesthetic combining bright colours, texts and images in dynamic ways.

 

The exhibition is curated by Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley. For the full press release click, here.

 

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue from Tate Publishing and a programme of talks.

 

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power will travel to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas and the Brooklyn Museum, New York.

 

— Curatorial text courtesy of The Tate Modern

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Works
  • Gerald Williams, Nation Time 1969, acrylic paint on canvas, 121.9 × 142.2 cm © Gerald Williams, courtesy Johnson Publishing Company, LLC. All rights reserved

    Gerald Williams, Nation Time 1969, acrylic paint on canvas, 121.9 × 142.2 cm

    © Gerald Williams, courtesy Johnson Publishing Company, LLC. All rights reserved

  • Wadsworth Jarrell Revolutionary, 1972 Screenprint printed in color on white wove paper 33 x 26 in 83 x 66 cm Edition of 300 + 18 APs + 17 Color Trial Proofs
    Wadsworth Jarrell
    Revolutionary, 1972
    Screenprint printed in color on white wove paper
    33 x 26 in
    83 x 66 cm
    Edition of 300 + 18 APs + 17 Color Trial Proofs
  • Jae Jarrell Brothers Surrounding Sis, 1970 Acrylic paint on suede Dimensions variable
    Jae Jarrell
    Brothers Surrounding Sis, 1970
    Acrylic paint on suede
    Dimensions variable

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  • Jeff Donaldson

    Jeff Donaldson

  • Jae Jarrell

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  • Wadsworth Jarrell

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  • Barbara Jones-Hogu

    Barbara Jones-Hogu

  • Gerald Williams

    Gerald Williams

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