Sargent, Antwaun Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists (1942884591)

What's new, now and next from contemporary Black artists

This book surveys the work of a new generation of Black artists, and also features the voices of a diverse group of curators who are on the cutting edge of contemporary art. As mission-driven collectors, Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi have championed emerging artists of African descent through museum loans and institutional support. But there has never been an opportunity to consider their acclaimed collection as a whole until now.

Edited by writer Antwaun Sargent (author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion), Young, Gifted and Black draws from this collection to shed new light on works by contemporary artists of African descent. At a moment when debates about the politics of visibility within the art world have taken on renewed urgency, and establishment voices such as the New York Times are declaring that 'it has become undeniable that African American artists are making much of the best American art today,' Young, Gifted and Black takes stock of how these new voices are impacting the way we think about identity, politics and art history itself.

Young, Gifted and Black contextualizes artworks with contributions from artists, curators and other experts. It features a wide-ranging interview with Bernard Lumpkin and Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem; and an in-depth essay by Antwaun Sargent situating Lumpkin in a long lineage of Black art patrons. A landmark publication, this book illustrates what it means (in the words of Nina Simone) to be young, gifted and Black in contemporary art.
Artists include Narcisisster, Derrick Adams, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Sadie Barnette, Kevin Beasley, Mark Bradford, Jordan Casteel, Dominic Chambers, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Caitlin Cherry, Cameron Clayborn, Alex Bradley Cohen, Bethany Collins, Leonardo Drew, Sable Elyse Smith, Ellen Gallagher, Cy Gavin, Alteronce Gumby, Lauren Halsey, Allison Janae Hamilton, David Hammons, Kenyatta Hinkle, Lonnie Holley, Tomashi Jackson, Rashid Johnson, Samuel Levi Jones, Deana Lawson, Glenn Ligon, Eric N. Mack, Jasper Marsalis, Kerry James Marshall, Hugo McCloud, Julie Mehretu, Troy Michie, Jayson Musson, Arcmanoro Niles, Clifford Owens, Jennifer Packer, Adam Pendleton, Adrian Piper, William Pope.L, Christina Quarles, Andy Robert, Latoya Ruby-Frazier, Jacolby Satterwhite, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Gerald Sheffield, Lorna Simpson, Vaughn Spann, Henry Taylor, Chiffon Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, D'Angelo Lovell Williams, Wilmer Wilson IV and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.