Vicki Meek: 3 Decades Of Social Commentar Exhibition
Vicki Meek: 3 Decades of Social Commentary is one of th exhibition in The African American Museum, Grand Evenue, Dallas, Texas.The African American Museum is the only one of its kind in the Southwestern Region devoted to the preservation and display of African American artistic, cultural and historical materials. It has one of the largest African American Folk Art collections in the US. This exhibition starts from 29 October 2020 to 1 March 2021[1]
Vicki Meek: 3 Decades of Social Commentary will feature a variety of mixed media works created by Professor Meek over the last 30+ years, all of which explore her lifelong investigation of social conditions affecting the African American community.[2]
Background
For 3 Decades Vicki Meek has created installations that critique, examine and comment on the African American experience in the United States, as well as her own reactions to social injustice, African American heroes and heroines and the African and African American aesthetic. Her work reflects the ideals developed during the Black Power Movement and the accompanying Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Trained as a sculptor, she has idolized some of the leading icons of African American art such as Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden. Her works reflect the influence of those icons as well as her own development as an artist over three decades. Curated by Dr. Lauren Cross of the University of North Texas, visitors will experience Vicki Meek’s genius of attacking issues in our society and forcing observers to react to the many challenging issues that confront all of us each day.[3]
Message
A retrospective provides a great opportunity for an artist to take stock of their aesthetic trajectory, and Vicki Meek: 3 Decades of Social Commentary has certainly afforded Professor Meek this unique experience. As she revisited work made in the late 1980s, it became very obvious to her that she has been consistently examining race, memory, and history, albeit from several perspectives. Her primary goal over the arc of her career has been to open up a dialogue on how history has been used to manipulate political thought and to create alternative narratives about African people.[4]
Reference
- ↑ Welcome. Aamdallas. Retrieved January 28, 2021
- ↑ Vicki Meek: 3 Decades of Social Commentary. Umass.edu. Retrieved January 28, 2021
- ↑ Vicki Meek: 3 Decades Of Social Commentary. Aamdallas. Retrieved January 28, 2021
- ↑ Vicki Meek: 3 Decades of Social Commentary. Umass.edu. Retrieved January 28, 2021
