Justified Art • Overture Center Gallery #1
Madison, Wisconsin – March 10, thru May 31, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1st | 6-8pm during Gallery Night
Facebook: www.facebook.com/JustifiedAngerDiscussion
Justified Art! is a platform for visual artists to participate in the conversation
inspired by
"Justified Anger", a Cap Times essay by Rev. Alex Gee detailing his personal
experience with racial profiling and discrimination as an African American living in the Madison area.
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| Featured painting: Mikal Pruitt, Bronzeville Poet Series • Oil on canvas • 36"H x 60"W |
Some of My Art
The Rock Island Series
A fictional art series that was created to reflect the lives of early jazz musicians who spent much their professional lives on the road. Traveling to and from gigs mainly by bus or train. Reflecting the good times and the bad times, the obstacles they faced, the love they gained and sometimes lost. But more importantly meeting people from different walks of life, in big cities and small towns who just loved it when they played America’s music ... “Jazz.”
America’s Only True Art Form
A visual buffet of work that draws upon the power of artists and our cultural modernity. But specifically America’s own music, Blues, Jazz and Hip Hop. African Americans have always been at the forefront of creating America's only true art forms, the most popular music genres of modern times. Putting the "J" in Jazz and “Hip” in Hip Hop music. The very fact that Africa from which most of our ancestors came, has influenced the way music is made and can be heard in African American music of the past and present. Johnson states that "this reason alone supports why I paint." The rhythmic spoken word and the hypnotic beats, created by some of the most talented African American producers, song writers, poets, musicians and performers today, has had a lasting influence on creative people world wide.
