VENICE BIENNALE 2011
THE AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM
TO EXHIBIT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
VENICE DURING THE BIENNALE, JUNE 2011
MADE POSSIBLE WITH A PARTNERSHIP WITH
BENETTON
INSTALLATIONS BY
CONTEMPORARY SELF-TAUGHT AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS
Eight artists have been chosen by AFAM to be showed in Venice. Each will execute an original site-specific installation for the Fondaco dei Tedeschi. Lonnie Holley, Gregory Warmack (a.k.a. Mr. Imagination), Charlie Lucas (a.k.a. Tin Man) and Kevin Sampson represent the virtuosity of African American Contemporary Outsider artists. Steven Ogburn (a.k.a. Blade), Chris Ellis (a.k.a. Daze), Lin Felton (a.k.a. Quik), and Aaron Goodstone (a.k.a. Sharp) will represent different aspects of the urban vernacular of Graffiti. This exhibition showcases the diversity of contemporary African American self-taught artists by pairing two distinctive yet complementary approaches to art making, using the building's architecture as inspiration for the work itself.
