The Tang Teaching Museum

The exhibit we observed at The Tang teaching Museum was the Environment and Object Recent African Art exhibit. Environment and Object Recent African Art is curated by Lisa Aronson, Associate Professor of Art History at Skidmore, and John Weber, Dayton Director of the Tang. This exhibit combined the impact of the environment and the use of objects and appropriated materials as a recurring presence in current African art. The exhibit includes sculpture, photography, painting and video by well-known artists from Africa and contemporary African artists living abroad .Some artists used their art to convey political and economic message through this exhibit and other artists employed strategies of accumulation and recuperation, fashioning dense, lyrical works that combine a love of abstraction with a commitment to the use of found materials.

Viye Diba, Nous sommes nombreux et nos problemes avec... We are numerous, and our problems, too, 2008 was a mixed media installation.

Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Black Gold I, 2006,  Acrylic paint on Dutch wax printed cotton canvas