24
Jun
30 Americans – Art Exhibit @ the Clay Center
Art
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12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Charleston,
WV,
06-24-18

30 Americans showcases works by many of the most important African American artists of the last three decades. This provocative exhibition focuses on issues of racial and historical identity in contemporary culture while exploring the powerful influence of artistic legacy and community across generations. All of the artworks in the exhibition are from the Rubell’s permanent collection.

30 Americans is drawn from the acclaimed holdings of the Rubell Family Foundation in Miami, Florida. New Yorkers Don and Mera Rubell began acquiring contemporary art in the late 1960s. Through their friendships with living artists, particularly young artists, the Rubells collected backwards and forwards, creating networks of intergenerational influence. As a result, the works that comprise the exhibition offer a stylistic conversation among artists of different decades and generations. Minimalism, abstraction, conceptualism, performance, new media, installation art, identity politics, deconstruction, street aesthetics, and the return of figuration—every major development in contemporary art over the past four decades is represented.

Provocative, beautiful, humorous, at times painful, and always deeply compelling, 30 Americans is a presentation of some of the best art made in the last forty years, and a captivating guide to some of the most exciting talent working today.

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