Mud, Twigs, Tin, and Wood: The Art of Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, and James Arthur Snipes
Curator: Ginger Young, Ginger Young Gallery
Thursday, October 18 - Friday, November 30
John Hope Franklin New Media Space
Opening Reception, Thursday October 18, 5:30 - 7:00pm
John Hope Franklin New Media Space
Sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies
Without benefit of a single art class or conventional supplies, each of these three artists pays rich testament to his life as an African-American male in twentieth-century Alabama. Jimmy Lee Sudduth, age 97, uses a mixture of mud, natural pigments, and paint to capture his town, his family, and the homes where he worked as a gardener. Mose Tolliver, who died in 2006, rendered everyday moments on found wood with lyricism and beauty. James Arthur Snipes delights in portraying his friends and neighbors on tin and framing them with twigs. Each of their works is intensely personal, an enduring visual memoir of everyday life.
For more information on these and other exhibits at the Franklin Center, contact Pamela Gutlon, p.gutlon@duke.edu.