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Art Bridges Collection
Joe OverstreetBoxes
About
Joe Overstreet invested his practice in African-American history and his art was a direct response to America’s sustained legacy of racism. Overstreet’s works from the 1950s and 60s were two-dimensional and representational, depicting racial injustice and violence.
By the time that the artist created Boxes, his work was beginning to undergo an important evolution.
“I was beginning to look at my art in a different light, not as protest, but as a statement about people,” the artist said. “By 1970 I had broken free from notions that paintings had to be on the wall in rectangular shapes ... I began to make paintings that were tent-like. I was making nomadic art, and I could roll it up and travel ... We had survived with our art by rolling it up and moving it all over ... I felt like a nomad myself, with all the insensitivity in America.”
Artist
Joe Overstreet
Dimensions
Canvas: 42 1/2 in. × 39 in. × 35 1/2 in. (108 × 99.1 × 90.2 cm) Installed: 115 in. × 67 1/2 in. × 48 in. (292.1 × 171.5 × 121.9 cm)
Credit Line
Art Bridges
Date
1970
Medium
Acrylic on constructed canvas with metal grommets and cotton rope
Object Number
AB.2018.14
Provenance
Artist; (Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY); purchased by Art Bridges, TX, 2018
Artwork Gallery
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