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Dewey Crumpler Untitled 1990s Mixed media in shadow box; etching on glass Approx 12 x 13 inches Excellent original condition In-house shipping $35 Dewey Crumpler (Born in 1949) is a Professor of Art and Art History at San Francisco Art Institute, where he has taught since 1990s. Recent exhibitions Soul of a Nation, Tate Modern, London, 2017 Choose Paint! Choose Abstraction, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, 2012 Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco CA, 2010 Of Tulips & Shadows, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, 2008-09 Shakespeare as Muse,/i>, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon Univ, 2004. American Color, Louie Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1997 Visual Encounters, Galerie Reshe, Paris, France, 1994 Twelve Bay Area Painters: Eureka Fellowship Winners, Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 1993 I Remember, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1993 Recent Works, Sacramento State University, Else Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 1993 1984 Bay Area Black Artists, Sargeant Johnson Gallery, SF, CA Continuity & Change-Emerging Afro-American Artists, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1978 Capricorn Asunder Art Gallery, San Francisco Arts Commission, SF, CA, 1977 Portraits, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, CA Peoples Murals, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, CA In the early 1970s, Crumpler painted murals focusing on African American social and political issues. His skill at structuring dynamic wall-sized compositions was honed from studies with Pablo O’Higgins and David Alfaro Siqueiros in Mexico City. But Crumpler was increasingly drawn to the expressive possibilities of abstract images, which he has pursued in paint, prints and sculpture for nearly 30 years. He will investigate an image relentlessly, such as the bulbous shape of a tulip or Monets lily pond at Giverny, France, and extend the form into myriad directions and mediums. Thematically, Crumpler has sought to address the history of slavery in America and explore how Africans transformed their experience of subjugation into cultural self-fulfillment and spiritual development. The concept of metamorphosis becomes actual practice through his artmaking. Crumpler takes shapes derived from instruments of torture, leg irons, neck collars, and chains, and employs them as abstracted vehicles that become transmuted into organic materials like tulip flowers.