Topic: black and white

Kell Black works exhibited at Frist Center

June 20, 2008 |

The work of APSU Professor of Art Kell Black will be featured later this month at the Frist Center for Visual Arts in Nashville. Black is one of four artists whose black-and-white drawings are part of an exhibition, titled “Shades of Gray: Four Artists of the Southeast.” The show opens June 20 and continues through Sept. 21.

Kell Black,Drawing for Boys (Crash), ca. 2002, Charcoal, graphite, and olive oil on paper, 8 ¼ x 10 3/4 [Courtesy of the artist}

The work was conceived to counter the exhibition, “Color as Field: American Painting 1950-75,” in which form and content are unified through the broad application of brightly colored areas of paint. Artwork in “Shades of Gray” includes gray, white and black, with the picture plane suggesting spatial ambiguity, mystery and personal and social narratives. «Read the rest of this article»

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