African American Abstraction

African American Abstraction | City Gallery East

2000

A group exhibition featuring national and local artists including Frank Bowling, Mildred Thompson, Joe Overstreet, Vandorn Hinnant, Freddie Styles, Jerald Ieans, Lance Lamont, Attiya Melton and Michael Scoffield the works explore nonobjective space in paintings and sculpture. The most exuberant work is Atlanta-based Thompson's Music of the Spheres, a trio of enormous three-panel paintings from 1996. She depicts the properties of physics in great bursts and streaks of red, yellow and orange.