Calder's Portraits at the Portrait gallery.

A few stolen images from the exhibition, a really beautiful style of creating sculptures using one piece of wire to sculpt the features of faces of friends after creating caricatures of them.

Other works at the Portrait Gallery

An Asian American art exhibition.

A new painting and new series of works in progress!

Art Show at Howard Uni- Spring 2011

The Annual Howard Student Show 2011 displays an array of young artists who are now transforming the art scene and generating a new Howard legacy. The various styles and subjects relate to the variety of students background and socio-political views. The graduate works displayed below show the many skills hosted at the school as well as many other works by undergraduates at the gallery at Howard Uni student exhibition.

Gallery Room 1

Night Sky, by Farah Ahmed

By Jamea Edwards

Lady of Leisure- by Farah Ahmed

Digital Prints, by Farah Ahmed

Portraits by Jessica McLeandon

By, Jeremy Scott

Sculpture by Amber Adams

MASTER African American Artists

Mixing Metaphors: The Aesthetic, social and Political in African American Art

This is a fantastic art show featured at Howard University gallery where some MASTER African American Artists works are collected and viewed by Bank of America.

Many artists take inspiration from their heritage, lifestyle and struggles as seen below.

Kevin Cole who is one of my favourite contemporary artists- check out his website- www.artistkcole.com

Julie Mehrutu another favourite contemporary artist who is from Ethiopia (big up Africa!) and she creates large abstracted scenes of landscapes.

Romare Bearden (1911-1988) who is known for his beautiful collages depicting various scenes of African American lifestyles.

www.beardenfoundation.org

Gordon Parks

Walter Cade III who also depicts many scenes from neighborhoods and lifestyle of New York.