The art of a self-taught giant is on view at Hauser and Wirth.
Winfred Rembert, a nationally renowned artist who depicted vivid scenes of Southern cotton fields and chain gangs and juke joints, died Wednesday inside the Newhall Street home where he carved his leather masterpieces. …
A searing first-person illustrated account of an artist’s life during the 1950s and 1960s in an unreconstructed corner of the deep South–an account of abuse, endurance, imagination, and aesthetic transformation.
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Winfred Rembert grew up in the cotton fields. As a young boy, he worked picking cotton, making 50 cents to $1 in a day. Later in life, he returned to the backbreaking labor as a member of a prison chain gang. He said it’s important to him to document the stories of the cotton fields because they contain a history that many Black people don’t know about.
Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by Partner and President Marc Payot
Chain Gang (All Me), 2004 What appears, at first, to be a jumble of white dashes on black, turns out to be prisoners on a chain gang. Blizz...
Flint Institute of Arts will welcome one of its most unique artists yet to let Genesee County see and hear his story: a narrative that includes prison time, a near death experience, and a different perspective of this country.
Images of folks at work by self-taught artists Winfred Rembert, Abe Odebina, Theora Hamblett, Andrea Poceiro and Philip Weintraub
Color Reduction woodcut from 4 blocks with 4 silk screen colors and embossing on white Rives BFK paper Edition 10/30, Unframed Signature: Edition, title, and signature on bottom: 29/38 All Me Winfred Rembert Video of the MassArt Master Print series project: https://youtu.be/SvfoxafFrVU Bibliography: A native of Cuthbert, Georgia, Winfred Rembert spent his childhood as a fieldworker in the pre-civil rights South. Brought up by his great-aunt ("Mama"), Rembert paints stories that look back to his youth in the days of segregation. Despite the often grim working conditions he encountered (not to mention a near-lynching and years spent on a prison chain gang), Rembert's works focus on the joyous aspects of black life in the 1950s South — the strong family and community bonds, the cultural vibrancy, and the many colorful characters that lifted the spirits of those who had little choice but to labor in the region's cotton and peanut fields. Marked by tactile surfaces, saturated colors, and lively, rhythmic patterning, Rembert's works are painted on leather sheets that he hand tools and then dyes. These energetic compositions — with their engaging narratives of life in the rural South — have brought Rembert comparisons to noted African-American artists Hale Woodruff, Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin, and Romare Bearden. Rembert, who is self-taught, lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. His paintings are represented in a number of important public and private collections, and were the subject of a major exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery in 2000.
Lillian Rembert dropped her mail sack on Shelton Avenue to see why her phone was blowing up with alerts -- to discover that her late father won a Pulitzer Prize. …
As a young, black man living in Georgia's Jim Crow era, Winfred Rembert experienced an unforgettable trauma. "I still wake up screaming and reliving things that happened to me," he told StoryCorps.
About Al Diaz resurrects the SAMO© moniker he created when he was part of the NYC 80s street-art duo with Jean-Michel Basquiat. In his work, "Wasted Paper," Diaz takes elements from graffiti, outsider art, decoupage, collaged, graphics and typography and mixes in a social message about societal excess. Paper, spray paint, paint marker, and safety tape on linen.
As Winfred Rembert displays his scenes of chain gangs and juke joints in his first major solo exhibition in a New York gallery, the Newhallville leather carver is on the verge of the biggest…
