Just a gentle reminder that my exhibition, Color Me Baddd, opens today, January 17th, 5 to 7pm.
Walter Maciel Gallery
2642 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles 90034
@waltermacielgallery
“My Life” 2025, Acrylic painting on fabric on wooden panel.
My new painting, “It’s not right but it’s okay”, will be at the Dallas Art Fair @vsf booth, opening tomorrow. April 21-24.
Acrylic painting 48”x36”
#ilovewhitney
@dallasartfair
A visit to this bookstore, Présence Africaine, was one of the highlights of my thus far two month stay in Paris. It is also the oldest Black owned publishing house in the world, founded in 1949, that solely focuses on works by Black authors from Africa and its diaspora, who deal with Pan-Africanism, Anti-Colonialism, and Liberation, as well as fiction, and poetry. All of the books are in French. The bookstore has been on Rue des Écoles since 1962.
Le Temps du Martyre
Le Blanc a tué mon père
Car mon père était fier
Le Blanc à voilé ma mère
Car ma mère était belle
Le Blanc a courbé mon frère
sous le soleil des routes
Car mon frère était fort
Puis le Blanc a tourné vers moi
Ses mains rouges de sang Noir
M’a craché son mépris au visage
Et de sa voix de maître :
« Hé boy, un berger, une serviette, de l’eau ! »
David Diop
@presenceafricaine
One of my oldest friends, David Henderson, has passed on. He was an extraordinary poet, diligent biographer of Jimi Hendrix, and playwright (we produced his radio play, Ghetto Follies, together at KPFA radio in Berkeley). He really influenced the way I think …. such a brilliant, sweet and mischievous spirit.
I took this photo of him in 1973.
💔
I’ve been in Paris for two months and feel that the city has been very kind to me 🤎
1) Place Saint Supplice
2) Musée Bourdelle
3) Textile artist, Magdalena Abakanowicz @museebourdelle
4) African Fashion show at Quai Branly Jacques Chirac Musée
5) Montmartre Cemetery
6) Sóla with Alison Saar sculpture in Charles Aznavour Park
7) Passage Galerie Vivienne
8) Bourse de Commerce, Pinaut Collection, Pierre Huyghe
9) Door 1e arrondissement
10) Musée Jacquemart André
11) @jacquemartandre
12) Parc Monceau
13) Foundation Louis Vuitton
14) Parc Monceau
15) Musée de la Vie Romantique
16) Versailles
17) Bois de Boulogne
18) Passage Vivienne
19) @passage_vivienne
20) Immeuble Hectar Guimard
My mom was honored at the Hammer Museum gala last night. Can you believe she’ll be 100 in a few months? And her fit!!!
I’m so extremely proud! (I’m out of the country and very sorry to have missed it)
📸 Tracye Saar Cavanaugh @tcav21@betyesaar@hammer_museum
Saudade is a word for a particular kind of longing - a melancholic nostalgia and yearning for an absent place or people, and a state of mind intrinsically linked to the Brazilian and Portuguese disposition. Los Angeles-based artist @lezleysaar chose the word deliberately for this series of portraits. Saar seeks to reflect this sense of saudade in her portraits, given that each of the women endured forced or voluntary migration in her lifetime.
In Issue #1, we are proud to feature Saar’s work as part of Tar Baby’s commitment to visual art that carries the same depth of intention as the written word. See the full series in Issue #1 at tarbaby.com.
I think people need to stop saying that the French are rude. I’ve been in Paris, albeit up north in the 19e, for about three weeks, and everyone has been so nice. It’s almost unreal.
1) Parc des Buttes Chaumont
2) 19 arrondissement
3) Musée Gustave Moreau
4) Parc des Buttes Chaumont
5) Église Saint Jean Baptiste de Belleville
6) Friends
7) Sacré Coeur
8) Halle Saint Pierre
9) Apartment kitchen window
10-11) Canal Saint-Martin
12) Église Nôtre Dame de la Croix
13-15) Jardin des Plantes
16) Galerie de l’Evolution
17) Candle Kids 20e
18-19) Parc Belleville
20) Ménilmontant 20e
My solo exhibition, Color Me Baddd, is still up until March 14th. Also @solita.aaaa has a provocative solo show of Tarot Collages and a Dollhouse. @waltermacielgallery
“Free Your Mind” a painting in my current show, “Color Me Baddd, and Rap Thugs-n-Dimes”. Also check out the Tarot Collages and Dollhouse by @solita.aaaa@waltermacielgallery in Culver City.
#andtherestwillfollow
