Art talk: an evening with kellie jones. 5pm | gallery viewing and public reception 6pm | lecture. kellie jones, macarthur fellow and professor of art history at columbia university, has been rewriting the history of art to include artists traditionally excluded. 2017 09 08t13:00:00 04:00 free with admission gallery talk learn more about the drama of 19th century scandinavian landscape paintings with susan morse hilles curator of european art oliver tostmann, in a tour of sublime north: romantic painters discover norway .
A decade ago, kellie jones set out to write a book about african american artists in los angeles. the focus of her research was the 1960s and ’70s, a period when artists in the city were experimenting with materials and form, and mixing art with activism. shortly thereafter, jones took a measured detour. she organized “now dig this!:. Jae (born elaine annette johnson) was an artist and fashion designer that jarrell met in the mid 1960s at chicago’s hyde park art fair. black artists were often segregated out of the city’s white run art world. so outdoor art fairs became key places for african american artists to exhibit. they married in 1967. South of pico culminates kellie jones’s exhaustive research on los angeles–based black artists in the 1960s and 70s. using oral histories, archives, special collections, and artists’ interactions as foundational elements, jones structures the text around migration and the practices that contributed to building black art communities in southern california. Duke university press 2017. witness: art and civil rights in the sixties. the monacelli press 2014. eyeminded: living and writing contemporary art. duke university press 2011. now dig this! art and black los angeles, 1960 1980. prestel delmonico 2011. energy experimentation: black artists and abstraction, 1964 1980. new york: the studio.
South of pico culminates kellie jones’s exhaustive research on los angeles–based black artists in the 1960s and 70s. using oral histories, archives, special collections, and artists’ interactions as foundational elements, jones structures the text around migration and the practices that contributed to building black art communities in southern california. Duke university press 2017. witness: art and civil rights in the sixties. the monacelli press 2014. eyeminded: living and writing contemporary art. duke university press 2011. now dig this! art and black los angeles, 1960 1980. prestel delmonico 2011. energy experimentation: black artists and abstraction, 1964 1980. new york: the studio. Kellie jones (born 1959) is an american art historian and curator. she is a professor in art history and archaeology in african american studies at columbia university. [ 1] she won a macarthur fellowship in 2016. [ 2] in 2023, she was elected to the american philosophical society. [ 3]. Kellie jones received a b.a. (1981) from amherst college and a ph.d. (1999) from yale university. she held curatorial positions at the studio museum in harlem (1981–1983), jamaica arts center (1986–1990), and walker art center (1991–1998); was u.s. commissioner for the bienal de são paulo (1989); and was a curator of the johannesburg.
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