Charles White Exhibit at UT Austin
Event Details
Date/Time:
Sun, September 29, 2019
01:00PM - 03:00PM
01:00PM - 03:00PM
Venue:
Christian-Green Gallery
Location:
201 East 21st St, Jester A232, Austin TX 78751
Map address
Map address
Registration Period:
09/16/2019-09/29/2019
Price:
Free. Pay for parking
Contact:
Stanford alumna, Dr. Cherise Smith, Founding Executive Director of the Art Galleries at Black Studies - UT Austin, has invited the Stanford Club of Austin to a special viewing of a wonderful exhibit on campus. The Art Galleries at Black Studies is comprised of two gallery spaces on UT Austin's campus —The Christian-Green Gallery and the Idea Lab.
Dr. Smith curated the exhibition entitled Charles White and the Legacy of the Figure, which is featured at the Christian-Green Library in Jester Center.
Please join us for the viewing and for some light refreshments, hosted by Dr. Smith.
More information:
The University of Texas at Austin is honored to be the home of 23 works by Charles White, one of the 20th century’s most accomplished draftsmen and influential art educators, thanks to a generous gift of art from Drs. Susan G. and Edmund W. Gordon in 2014. Two concurrent exhibitions at the Blanton Museum of Art and the Christian-Green Gallery at UT Austin celebrates the artist’s remarkable career and legacy. Born in 1918 in Chicago, White dedicated his life and artistic practice to creating a visual archive of the Black experience in America. Curated by Dr. Cherise Smith at the Christian-Green Gallery, Charles White and the Legacy of the Figure: Celebrating the Gordon Gift examines White’s influence on his students and other artists, especially those interested in the human figure. The exhibition includes works by Kerry James Marshall, Deborah Roberts, Michael Ray Charles, and Vincent Valdez.
