“Painter’s Takes on Classics Challenged Color Lines,” The Washington Post
Robert Colescott, a painter whose wild brush strokes across sprawling canvases depicted the ugly ironies of race in America, died June 4 at his home in Tucson. He was 83.
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“Renowned UA artist’s offbeat works skewered convention,” The Arizona Daily Star
Renowned UA artist’s offbeat works skewered convention Robert Colescott: 1925-2009 by Aaron Mackey, THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR With a cartoonist’s colorful flair and a cutting irony, Robert Colescott created a…
“The Death of the Poet,” ArtNet
The Death of the Poet by Charles Finch, ARTNET Robert Colescott’s painting Death of Poet depicts a handsome man with an enigmatic smile staring contentedly through his memories of a…
“Robert Colescott: 1925-2009,” Time
The American painter Robert Colescott has died. Make that great American painter. Colescott was an African-American who was best known for high-comic riffs on racial stereotypes.
“Robert Colescott, Painter Who Toyed With Race and Sex, Dies at 83,” The New York Times
Robert Colescott, an American figurative painter whose garishly powerful canvases lampooned racial and sexual stereotypes with rakish imagery, lurid colors and almost tangible glee, died Thursday at his home in Tucson. He was 83.
“Robert Colescott: 1925-2009,” The Oregonian
Robert Colescott, the gifted American artist whose often outlandish but always gorgeous paintings pondered racial stereotypes and other thorny aspects of race relations in America, passed away Thursday at his home in Tucson.
“Memory as Art,” by Lisa Leblanc-Berry
As an ardent film buff, one of my all-time favorite movies I have watched repeatedly since childhood is The Wizard of Oz”. So it came as a refreshing surprise to discover New Orleans artist Nicole Charbonnet’s dreamy renditions of the film as mixed media on canvas.
“New Orleans Artist Stephen Paul Day at the Arthur Roger Gallery,” New Orleans Times-Picayune
Stephen Paul Day is the master of fake history exhibits. In past years, he has produced a selection of spurious opera memorabilia, nontraditional interpretations of fairy tales, unreal Tennessee Williams ephemera and a traveling exhibit of factually inaccurate New Orleans souvenirs (with his wife, artist Sibylle Peretti).
“Cabin Land: Bronze and Porcelain Sculpture by Stephen Paul Day,” Gambit Weekly
Following Stephen Paul Day’s progress as a sculptor is at times like following the history of the medium itself. He doesn’t just work in metal, wood, glass, ceramics and found objects; he gets right down to the basics. He built his own bronze foundry, although it became one of the more unusual casualties of Hurricane Katrina.
“Jame Surls’ works: ‘An unpolished beauty’,” by Stewart Oksenhorn
CARBONDALE — Finding James Surls’ Missouri Heights studio isn’t all that difficult. The directions aren’t tricky, and even if they were, there are not many shiny-new, 7,000-square foot metal structures in the area. Still, when I drove up recently to meet the artist at his studio, I had a small worry that Surls had not given me a street number.