past exhibits

Something to look forward to

May 11 - July 15, 2006

This exhibit pays homage to the exceptional talent, unique vision, and courageous persistence of particular mature artists who have created dynamic abstract images and objects during extended and successful careers. Twenty-two celebrated African American artists over the age of sixty were each invited to exhibit two works, created six to ten years apart. The submissions cover several forms of abstract art, including mixed media, painting, sculpture and furniture. The exhibition opened at Franklin & Marshall College, March 2004 in the Dana and Rothman Galleries of the college’s Phillips Museum of Art. This visually stunning, groundbreaking show is curated by Bill Hutson, the college’s Jennie Brown and Betsy Hess Cook Distinguished Artist-in-Residence. The exhibit features works by Betty Blayton, Frank Bowling, Yvonne Pickering Carter, Edward Clark, Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, Gerald Jackson, Lawrence Compton Kolawole, Alvin Loving, Richard Mayhew, Sam Middleton, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Joe Overstreet, Howardena Pindell, Helen and Frank Wimberley.

sampling of works presented