The power of abstract art lies in its ability to convey meaning ... People used red and black for anger; brown, green, and ochre for disgust; black, gray, and blue for fear; and yellow, orange ...

And as Lowery Stokes Sims notes, a certain tradition of black activism also considered abstract art too ingratiating ... But the fields of gray are actually found objects: the banal acoustic ...

Black Abstract Painters Are Finally Given Their Due. CU Boulder Today spoke with O’Grady, a critic and essayist who recently joined the university as assistant professor of Critical and Curatorial ...

For its final Art After Dark of the year, the Bakersfield Museum ... The exhibition features work from Francis, an internationally known abstract expressionist painter, as well as pieces from ...