The
Uumbaji Art Gallery
“L'Amérique, J'Accuse”
An
African Pietà
African Pietà ron anderson
cardboard, crayon and chalk crosby family collection
height
37", width
25"
Exhibit
One
“L'Amérique, J'Accuse”
The Stars and Bars of America
“Frog
Perspectives”
– This is a phrase I've borrowed from Nietzsche to describe someone
looking
from below upward, a sense of someone who feels himself lower than
others.
The concept of distance involved here is not physical; it is
psychological.
It involves a situation in which, for moral or social reasons, a person
or group feels that there is another person or group above it. Yet,
physically,
they all live on the same general material plane. A certain degree of
hate
combined with love (ambivalence) is always involved in this looking
from
below upward and the object against which the subject is measuring
himself
undergoes constant change. He loves the object because he would like to
resemble it; he hates the object because his chances of resembling it
are
remote, slight. Proof of this psychological reality can be readily
found
in the expressions of oppressed people. If you ask an American Negro to
describe his situation, he will almost always tell you: “We are
rising.”
Against what or whom is he measuring his “rising”? It is beyond doubt
his
hostile white neighbor.
– Richard Wright
Foto
collage by André Swancy from
the Crosby
Family Collection.
"Frog Perspectives" text from Richard Wright, White Man Listen! (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964), p. 6.
An
African Pietà African Pietà ron anderson
cardboard, crayon and chalk crosby family collection
The Death
of Malcolm X
Death of Malcolm X
(unfinished
1973)
acrylics on masonite
fiberboard
height 4 ft. x width 8 ft
| ABOUT
THE
ARTIST OF "AFRICAN PIETA" AND "DEATH OF MALCOLM" |
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RON
ANDERSON attended Kent State University and Ohio State University,
where he received his teaching certification. He worked as a commercial artist in various
industries before becoming a teacher
of the arts. He continues to teach
at the Fort Hayes
Career Center, The
Columbus College of Art and
Design, and is a regional director
of the Governor’s Youth Art
Exhibition. His work has been selectively
exhibited in Ohio and has been
featured at the Ohio State Fair Art
Exhibition. His work is almost exclusively shown in
Columbus, Ohio. Of the two works featured
here, the first -- An African Pieta
-- is exhibited in the home of Dr. and
Mrs. Edward and Shirley
Crosby, Kent, Ohio; the second -- Death
of Malcolm X -- is exhibited in
the Center of Pan-African Culture,
Department of Pan- African Studies (DPAS) at Kent
State University. The Department was founded by Dr. Crosby in 1969.
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