ROBERT CARTER, “Development,” circa 1980 (acrylic, pencil, commercials, and paper mounted on wooden panel, 32 1/2 x 68 inches / 82.5 x 172.7 cm). | © Robert Carter, Courtesy ACA Galleries, NY
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BRINGING TOGETHER the works of two artists engaged with determine composition, “Robert Carter and Charles White in Dialogue” at ACA Galleries explores the human situation by means of the lens of the African American expertise. Born in Chicago, Charles White (1918-1979) was a grasp draftsman who studied on the Artwork Institute of Chicago, Artwork College students League in New York, and with Mexican muralists, together with David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera, in Mexico Metropolis. White’s highly effective photographs targeted on social and historic points and the dignity of Black women and men. He was artistically and politically lively in a number of communities, together with New York and Los Angeles, the place he lived the final 20 years of his life and flourished as an impactful educator.
Lesser identified, the follow of Robert Graham Carter (b. 1938) carefully pertains to White visually and when it comes to subject material. The elder artist tremendously influenced Carter, who was moved by White’s publication “Photographs of Dignity: The Drawings of Charles White” (1967). Born in Louisville, Ky., Carter obtained a B.S. diploma from the College of Louisville, the place fellow college students included Sam Gilliam, Kenneth Victor Younger, and Bob Thompson, and earned an MFA at Pratt Institute. For the reason that late Sixties, Carter has lived and labored on Lengthy Island, N.Y., the place his output has included youngsters’s ebook illustrations and he taught for 50 years at Nassau Neighborhood School. Producing private and common photographs, his works deal with the charms of childhood, power of household, legacy of Jim Crow segregation, and enduring symbolism of the Black church. The 2-artist exhibition presents a survey of 14 works throughout work, drawings, and mixed-media works on wooden panel, relationship from the Nineteen Thirties to 2024. CT
“Robert Carter and Charles White in Dialogue’ is on view at ACA Galleries, 529 West twentieth Avenue, fifth Ground, New York, N.Y., from Feb. 18-April 18, 2025
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Set up view of “Robert Carter and Charles White in Dialogue,” ACA Galleries, New York, N.Y. (Feb. 18-April 18, 2025). | © Roman Dean, Courtesy ACA Galleries, NY
Set up view of “Robert Carter and Charles White in Dialogue,” ACA Galleries, New York, N.Y. (Feb. 18-April 18, 2025). | © Roman Dean, Courtesy ACA Galleries, NY
CHARLES WHITE, “Mater Dolorosa,” 1946 (oil on canvas, 14 x 12 inches / 35.56 x 30.48 cm). | © Property of Charles White, Courtesy ACA Galleries, NY
Set up view of “Robert Carter and Charles White in Dialogue,” ACA Galleries, New York, N.Y. (Feb. 18-April 18, 2025). | © Roman Dean, Courtesy ACA Galleries, NY
Set up view of “Robert Carter and Charles White in Dialogue,” ACA Galleries, New York, N.Y. (Feb. 18-April 18, 2025). | © Roman Dean, Courtesy ACA Galleries, NY
Set up view of “Robert Carter and Charles White in Dialogue,” ACA Galleries, New York, N.Y. (Feb. 18-April 18, 2025). | © Roman Dean, Courtesy ACA Galleries, NY
ROBERT CARTER, “If Der Be Angels Den Some Mus Look Like Me (fingers raised),” 2010 (acrylic, pencil, and paper mounted on wooden panel, 18 1/2 x 48 inches / 47 x 121.9 cm). | © Robert Carter, Courtesy ACA Galleries, NY
Set up view of “Robert Carter and Charles White in Dialogue,” ACA Galleries, New York, N.Y. (Feb. 18-April 18, 2025). | © Roman Dean, Courtesy ACA Galleries, NY
Set up view of “Robert Carter and Charles White in Dialogue,” ACA Galleries, New York, N.Y. (Feb. 18-April 18, 2025). | © Roman Dean, Courtesy ACA Galleries, NY
FIND MORE about Robert Graham Carter on his web site
FIND MORE “Robert Graham Carter: The Artwork of Reflection,” a solo touring exhibition of the artist is at present on view on the Heckscher Museum of Artwork in Huntington, N.Y. (Feb. 2-Could 25, 2025). The present is touring subsequent to the Cressman Heart Galleries on the College of Louisville (Aug. 1-Sept. 1, 2025)
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“Charles White: A Retrospective” paperwork a significant touring museum exhibition of the artist. “Charles White: The Gordon Present to The College of Texas” and “Charles White: A Little Increased” had been revealed on the event of latest reveals at college museums.
