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http://www.moma.org/collection/works/283698

—Barkley L. Hendricks, 1972

‘Barkley L. Hendricks: Works on Paper’ is the first in a 5-volume series from Skira and Jack Shainman Gallery. Collecting recently discovered works, this volume is somewhat of a revelation, as many of the pieces would not be immediately identifiable with Hendricks' iconic formal portrait style. "In the 1970s, several solar eclipses occurred, visible at various points in North America," Laila Pedro writes. "Hendricks, a technician of light who was fascinated by its functioning in paint, photograph and gold, seems to have been creatively stimulated and intrigued by the massive astronomical phenomenon. He produced a strikingly innovative, fresh set of multimedia experiments that are as freewheeling as they are cerebral and inventive. They share in common a kind of mystical abstracted landscape, with pyramids, sometimes magi, and celestial bodies. In some of them, landscapes are constructed with collage elements like postcards and stamps, in a nearly Dadaesque combination of elements, codes, jokes and puns, or sometimes covered with repeating scribbles." #barkleyhendricks #barkleylhendricks @skiraeditore @jackshainman https://www.instagram.com/p/B889OK4p3ov/?igshid=1uzav6cnu09x2

Barkley L. Hendricks (April 16, 1945 – April 18, 2017) was a contemporary American painter who made pioneering contributions to black portraiture and conceptualism. While he worked in a variety of media and genres throughout his career (from photography to landscape painting), Hendricks' best known work took the form of life-sized painted oil portraits. In these portraits, he attempted to imbue a proud, dignified presence upon his subjects. He frequently painted black Americans against monochrome interpretations of urban northeastern American backdrops. Hendricks' work is unique for its marriage of American realism and post-modernism. Although Hendricks did not pose his subjects as celebrities, victims, or protesters, the subjects depicted in his works were often the voices of the under-represented blacks of the 1960s and 1970s. Hendricks even stood alongside his subjects and featured himself in works, like in Brilliantly Endowed (Self portrait), 1977 where he painted himself nude in response to an art critic's comments on his show. Via #TheArtStack.. Legendary.. #ArtAboveReality #LookWhatArtFound #Inspiring #Art #Curator #PhotoJournalism #PhotoJournalist #StreetPhotography #ArtJournalism #ArtPhotography #photoaday #photo #artist #contemporaryart #CollectingArt #FineArt #BarkleyLHendricks #blackhistorythrougharts #BlackArt #Philadelphia

Barkley L. Hendricks, Sweet Thang (Lynn Jenkins), 1975-76.

y'all should've seen the vibe at PAFA in 09' when they had the symposium for 'The Birth of Cool' and the actual people that Hendricks painted were in the fucking room. IN REAL LIFE! SUCH A VIBE!!! Barkley was like "back then you could definitely tell the North Philly niggas from the rest..." MAN LISTEN! 🙏🏿| image -North Philly Niggah (William Corbett), 1975. #RIP #BarkleyLHendricks (at North Philadelphia)

Styling and Profiling! #BarkleyLHendricks #Art #Culture #Black #Red #ClassicMan #Mood #WorldOfWilbekin #WOW

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/283924