Artist McArthur Binion has established a residency in Detroit to give other artists of color a chance at the recognition that eluded him for so long
| Photography by Gioncarlo Valentine for WSJ. MagazineMcArthur Binion, 75, is standing over a work in progress, holding three oil paint sticks between the fingers of his left hand. With his right hand, he plucks the red one, draws a line on paper and tucks the stick back where it started. Binion repeats the move with the yellow stick, the blue stick and then the red again.
Though Binion has worked as an artist since the early 1970s, it’s only in recent years that sales and acclaim have become abundant. The 2017 Venice Biennale marked a turning point. Binion’s work—seven paintings selected by curator Christine Macel—caught the eye of gallerist Rachel Lehmann, whose gallery, Lehmann Maupin, represents an elite roster of artists in eight locations on three continents.
“The work was so courageous and powerful,” Lehmann recalls. “I completely fell in love.” Two days after leaving Venice, Lehmann flew to Chicago, where Binion had maintained a studio practice and a position teaching art at Columbia College since the early ’90s, to offer representation. “I’d never heard of Lehmann Maupin,” Binion says. “I don’t follow that stuff. Once you think it’s about that and not the work, you’re lost.
Lehmann signed Binion in 2018, and the gallery began showing his paintings the following year. Suddenly, he had solo shows in Hong Kong, Seoul and New York, as well as representation on the art-fair circuit—Switzerland’s Art Basel, London’s Frieze. Lehmann Maupin now sells his paintings at prices ranging from $300,000 to $900,000, a stark contrast from the many years in which Binion acted as his own sales rep. “If you liked me, you’d write a check,” Binion says, describing his sales approach.
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