The royalacademy has brought artists who have for a very long time been siloed under the labels ‘outsider’ or ‘self-taught’ into its halls 🖋️ By HettieJudah
Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers, Royal Academy review: An invigorating showcase of black American artists
This is art held together by acts of magic and faith, that invites you to look at junk, scrap metal, old clothes and pieces of wood, and to see them as things full of potential. These works, by artists including Lonnie Holley, Thornton Dial and Loretta Pettway, have been created within specific local traditions of painting, sculptural assemblage and textile work that developed as skills and knowledge passed generation to generation, friend to friend.
Above a lump of stone perched on an old photocopier, Holley has scratched “It’s like I’m Living in Hell” with a stiff-bristled brush dunked in black paint. suggests damaging cycles – a hell of endless repetition. Another work refers to the demonisation of popular music.
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