Exhibitions

Masterpieces in African American Art: An African American Perspective

At the M. Hanks Gallery, Santa Monica; third annual exhibition includes a mixture of artwork in various media and spanning seven decades. All of them have one thing in common: they express some aspect of the African American experience.


Profit and Loss (John Thomas Riddle, Jr.) ca. 2000

Composed of “drawers-containers” including sardine can, images of Aku’aba dolls, slaves and bottle rack. Flag pole mounted on top and shark mounted beneath. Flag contains an image of Middle Passage slave ship quarters. View