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Artist of the Day: Barry Johnson

Published
May 30, 2019
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Melissa Hunter Davis is a creative entrepreneur and the master mind behind Sugarcane . Sugarcane Magazine is an online journal about art of Africa and the African Diaspora. She has an affinity for African arts, African culture, African performers and African literature. Follow her at @sugarcanemag

Artist of the Day: Barry Johnson

Barry Johnson is a multimedia artist, author, and speaker. He used housepaint and found objects to create this body of work.

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  • One of South Florida’s freshest talents. Look out for @mxlawkii , he got next. @commuterbiennial Terence Price II “Lil Haiti” Miami Gardens Drive Be sure to join us for a special talk with Terence, as well as Michelle Lisa Polissaint at @thebakehouseartcomplex this Tuesday at 6:00 PM #linkinbio supported by @sugarcanemagazine @mxlawkii #CommuterBiennial @lichellemisa @knightfdn
  • This is a stunning image. @siridrisx doesn’t disappoint. @siridrisx New Work inspired by a Netflix series 3%. "Alverez" #lovequotes #art #siridris #redhead #globetrotter #Africa #love #woman #heart #artsy #beautiful #alvarez #ghana #stayabstract #blackdiamond #blue #smile #africanartists #artist #blackbeauty #blackartist #love #spring #ginger #globe #masterpiece #creative #unfuckafrica #beautifulgirls @estherschipperberlin @siridris @sugarcanemagazine @thedeancollection @guggenheim @nyagallery @aissamaiga @netflix @netflixnl @mariangoodmangallery @netflixs @maryboonegallery @saatchiart @saatchi_gallery @artsrow @ava
  • Summer is almost over and school starts soon. Savor nature before you give up the warmth of the day. Via @gullahmama "Free Your Mind" re-imagined.
  • Clementine by @shonibarestudio Drawing from his own experience growing up in the U.K. and Nigeria, Yinka Shonibare investigates political and social histories related to post-colonialism and globalization, reconfiguring iconic imagery from the Western art-historical canon with a playful and ironic touch. Working in sculpture, film, photography, and painting, Shonibare is best known for his tableaux of characters dressed in spectacular period costumes made from batik (an Indonesian-designed fabric that is produced in the Netherlands and popular in West Africa). Text via @artsy
  • Madonna (Madame Duvalier), 1983 by #paulclaudegardere (#haiti) b1959- d 2011 "In the notion of diaspora, we find the often harsh reality of the migration, a constant flow and mix of souls. It is said that art transcends geography. More than nationalism or nostalgia, it is deracination itself that nurtures contemporary art. Deracination need not mean loss of homeland. It could be alienation, marginalization, political disaffection. It is a by-product of globalism. For the artist in our time to enter the stream of contemporary ideas, he or she has to abandon the notion of a fixed center. He is his own center, being if he chooses in several places at once, speaking several tongues or being able to look at any given situation from a variety of points of view. The concept of multiple narratives, a story with two or more points of view, is the operational principle of my work." -Paul Gardère, artist's statement excerpt from The Visual Semantics of Diaspora: Paul Gardère, Lehigh University, 2007
  • "I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” #tonimorrison . 📷 by #DebrahFeingold for @gettyimages
  • For my people standing staring trying to fashion a better way from confusion, from hypocrisy and misunderstanding, trying to fashion a world that will hold all the people, all the faces, all the adams and eves and their countless generations; - poetry by Margaret Walker. Photo by @buka_andile
  • “The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer. There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know. You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.”-Gordon Parks. Gordon Parks, Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956
  • Squad goals! Via @halimatahaproarts Banksy #contemporaryartist #statement #truth #contemporaryfineart #europeanartist #women #power #vision @banksy

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