Paintings headed to the Musee des Arts Derniers in Paris

I posted about the "Legacy of Local Artists" exhibit at the Columbus Museum of Art in a previous blog entry. Here is more detail about this special installation from www.columbusalive.com :

Portrait of an Artist

...Artists usually document larger-than-life subjects, but a special exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art offers a new way of looking at the artists themselves. Togo-native artist and gallery proprietor Talle Bamazi captures five African American artists set against spare surrealist backgrounds in his new exhibition, Columbus Portraits.

Inspired by the West African oral tradition of griots, Bamazi documented five Columbus-based painters, artists, photographers and friends on enormous canvases in homage to the importance of tradition in contemporary creative life. Along with Aminah Robinson — whose latest exhibition, Along Water Street, is also currently on display — local photographers Kojo Kamau, Abdi Roble and Tariq Tarey and painter Ron Anderson, are given the royal treatment in subdued oils on linen...

http://www.columbusalive.com/?sec=calendar&story=alive/publish/alive_alist.html

A closing reception takes place Wednesday February 27, before the portraits make their way to the Musee des Arts Derniers in Paris.

—Nikki Davis

What: "Legacy of Local Artists"
When: Through February 28
Where: Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad St.
Web: columbusmuseum.org
Web: columbusalive.com

Posted by: Robin