Black artists expose inequity in the Bay Area in a new exhibit. “Invincible Black Soul: The Art of Bearing Witness” is open at the SFAC's Main Gallery.
"The San Francisco legend is that it's cosmopolitan and forward-looking, but it's just another American city," James Baldwin once said."And if you're a Black man, that's a very bitter thing to say."
Curated by Mark Harris, the show includes over 30 works by Harris, Raymond L. Haywood and Bryan Keith Thomas, all Bay Area-based Black artists working across painting, collage and sculpture. The show's centerpiece is a full-scale re-imagining of Baldwin's study, replete with a desk, typewriter, bookcase and bar, and adorned with work by the exhibiting artists.
Here, we see Baldwin set within the context of San Francisco and Black history, emphasizing their intersections. Keith Thomas presents other Black icons in his mixed-media paintings, including Harriet Tubman and Chadwick Boseman. These assemblages are layered and visceral, often including objects from photographs to crosses and decorated with flowers and tassels. They're celebratory, in a reverential way, like the artwork one might find decorating a cathedral.
Ex // Top Stories Why SF's James Beard snub isn't an indictment of the restaurant scene "I'm sure it will come back in our direction," Laurie Thomas, the executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, told The Examiner Such is the theme of"Take This Hammer," in which many of Baldwin's interviewees describe bureaucratic forms of racist oppression. Baldwin's visit to San Francisco came just a decade before the decimation of the Fillmore District — a thriving Black community known as the Harlem of the West — under a redevelopment project colloquially known as"urban renewal," a phrase that alone carries connotations of ethnic cleansing.
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