Houston Conwill
Houston Conwill | |
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![]() Houston Conwill in 1974, Washington D.C. | |
Born | |
Died | 14 Novemba 2016 | (aged 69)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Howard University University of Southern California |
Occupation | Artist |
Years active | 1971–2016 |
[1]Houston Eugene Conwill (Eprel 2, 1947 - Nọvemba 14, 2016) bụ onye omenkà multidisciplinary America amaara nke ọma maka nrụnye ọkpụkpụ ọhaneze buru ibu. Conwill bụ onye na-ese ihe, onye na-ese ihe, na-arụ na onye na-ese ihe nke ọrụ ya na saịtị ya na-egosi ma na-eme ememe ime ụka na ndị na-ese ihe, ndị na-eme ihe. nkiri na ndị ọkà America . [1] Ndị dike ihe ngosi nka Studio dị na Harlem ọrụ ya dị ka "ihe na-adịgide adịgide maka omenala ojii."
Ndụ mmalite na ọrụ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]A Houston Eugene Conwill na Museum 2, 1947, na Louisville, Kentucky, nye Mary Luella Herndon, onye nkuzi, na Giles Adolph Conwill, onye akụkọ. Ọ bụ ya bụ nwa nke atɔ n’ime ụmụ isii ha ojú. Nna ya nwụrụ mgbe ọ bụ nwata na nne nne ya (Estella Houston, onye aha ya bụ) Manuel ọrụ dị mkpa na nnukwu ya. A pịare Conwill onye ika, nne ya bụ onye nkuzi na onye ngosi n'akwụkwọ akwụkwọ parochial ndị isi ojii na-enwekarị. Nwanne ya Estella Conwill Majozo bụ onye edemede, onye na-ede uri, na prọfesọ. Ọ dị ala otu n’ime agba ya, Giles Conwill, gara n’ihu isonye n’ọkwa nchụ-aja. Ruo oge ụfọdụ, mgbe ọ nọ n'afọ iri na ụma, Conwill bi na Saint Meinrad Archabbey, ebe obibi ndị mọnk dị na Saint Meinrad, Indiana .
Mgbe o dị Air Force na 1966 ebe ọ jere ozi afọ atọ ruo nke 1970, ọ debanyere aha na ngalaba nka University Howard . N'oge ya na Howard, Conwill na-arụ ọrụ na Sam Gilliam, Lois Mailou Jones, na Skunder Boghossian, ma were ihe ngosi nke omenala Afrika nke e sere na gallery Howard. Ọ bụ ebe a, na ihe ngosi ụmụ akwụkwọ mbụ ya na 1971, na Conwill dere ọrụ na akwa akwa gbasasịrị n'ụdị pyramid, ihe ga-emeghachi n'oge ọrụ nka ya niile. [1] Conwill akwụkwọ akwụkwọ na Howard na 1973 wee kwaga ya na nri ya, onye akwụkwọ akwụkwọ na Howard art school Kinshasha Holman Conwill, gaa California . Houston akara akara akara nna ya ukwu na Mahadum Southern California [2] na Kinshasha ọrụ na curator nke Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House, ebe ha biri apụta abụọ [2]
Ndụ onwe onye
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Conwill na-egosi Karen Holman (nke dị ka Kinshasha Holman Conwill) na emume ndị Ghana na-eme na Metropolitan Baptist Church na Washington DC na 1971. [1] Conwill nwụrụ na Nọvemba 14, 2016, maka ọrịa kansa prostate .
Ọrụ ndị dị mkpa
[dezie | dezie ebe o si][3]Na 1989, Conwill weputara mpempe akwụkwọ nrụnye maka ihe ngosi nka nke oge a, Projects, egosi The Cakewalk Humanifesto: A Cultural Libation . Otu osisi etched-glass, nke na-echetara windo rose na Chartres, ka ejiri okwu na ma ike, na-atụpụtapụta n'elu ala marble gallery ahụ. Ibe ahụ mmetụta nke e dekwasịrị na ya bụ akwụkwọ ozi, nke nwanne ya nwoke, bụ́ Estella dere. Ọgụgụ akwụkwọ ozi ndị ahụ bụ nke ihe ngosi ahụ Ikekwe ọrụ Conwill a ma ama bụ Rivers, terrazzo ya na ime ụlọ brass na New York Public Library 's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture . E merere ya na February 1992, ala ahụ na- ike onye na-ede uri Langston Hughes onye ntụ ya na-eli n'ime akwụkwọ n'ime nhazi ahụ. Aha ọrụ, Rivers, na-ezo aka na uri Hughes " The Negro Speaks of Rivers ", na-agụnye ihe ndị a na-ahụ anya sitere na Yoruba, Haitian voodou, na omenala Ndị ahịa . Conwill rụkọrọ ọrụ ọzọ na nwanne ya nwoke, Estella, yana onye na-ese ụlọ ụlọ Joseph De Pace

Na 1986 Arc, nnukwu nrụnye, bụ Conwill mere maka ọnụ ụzọ 160th Street na York College, CUNY campus. [1] Arc nwere ogologo ụkwụ 26, ọ bụ ola, nke a na-akpọkarị "ọla Afrịka", ikere na konk ịtịt . A na-ekpuchi ya site na inlays nke akara dị iche iche na-iche n'elu nke arc na-ahụ, usoro nke arc metric na-agbaze waya ozi n'elu. Arc bụ oxidized ka ọ bụrụ agba akwụkwọ ndụ akwụkwọ ndụ tii, yiri ihe oyiyi akwụkwọ onwe nke New York City . Ibe ahụ ụgbọ ala atọ atịre n'ime pavement sink dị nso. Okirikiri ọ blerela otu ugboro okwu eme ugboro abụọ na-ama ukwu. A na-edowe 'MEMORY' n'okpuruokpuru a gbachiri agbachi, na-esote 'Ọhụụ' ka steepụ ole na ole kpọrọ na mgbe ahụ, ọnwụ ole na ole ga-agafe bụ 'IMGINATION'. A na-ekewa ụkwụ ọ lla n'ime anọ hà nhata nwere ahịrị nwere nwera ahịrị na-echetara Yowa, [2] Kongo cosmogram maka ịga n'ihu nke ndụ mmadụ site na ịlọ ụwa . Ọtụtụ akara ndị Africa na-eji elele anya ndogide omenala ha na United States of America . Dabere n'oge ehihie na ọnọdụ, akụkụ Arc na-agagharị n'okirikiri dị n'ala gbara ya gburugburu
Ụbọchị Conwill bụ mkpokọta na-adịgide nke Museum of Modern Art na New York; Ogige ihe ngosi nka na ihe ọkpụkpụ Hirshhorn dị na Washington, DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ; na Studio Museum na Harlem . [4]
Ndepụta ọrụ ahọpụtara
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- Ihe omimi nke ọṅụ (1984–2034 AD), (1984) na Studio Museum na Harlem, New York
- Arc (1986) na Mahadum York, CUNY, New York
- Nzuzo mepere emepe, (1986) mezzanine nke 125th Street, New York [5] [6] [7]
- The Cakewalk Humanifesto: A Cultural Libation (1989) na MOMA, New York
- Poets Rise (1989) mpụta nke Joseph P. Addabbo Federal Building, Jamaica, Queens, New York [8]
- Rivers (1992) na Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York
- Njem Du Sable (1991), ya na Estella Majoza na Joseph De Pace, na Harold Washington Library, Chicago [9]
- Mkpughe (1993), nke a makwaara dị ka Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, ya na Estella Majoza na Joseph De Pace, na Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco.
- New Calypso (1994), ya na Estella Conwill Majoza na Joseph De Pace, na Park West Station, Miami [10]
- The New Ring Shout (1995), na Ted Weiss Federal Building (n'akụkụ African Burial Ground National Monument ), New York, New York [11]
Ihe ngosi ahọpụtara
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- 1976 JuJu, The Gallery, Los Angeles
- Ngafe 1980: Earth/Space H3, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta
- 1981 mkpu Ista! , PS1, New York
- 1982 Afro-American Abstraction, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles [12]
- 1986 Houston Conwill: Mmasị nke St. Matthew-eserese na ihe ọkpụkpụ, Alternative Museum, New York
- 1990 Houston Conwill: Project Series, Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1990 Hirshhorn ỌRỤ 89: Daniel Buren, Buster Simpson, Houston Conwill, Matt Mullican / Sidney Lawrence, Ned Rifkin, na Phyllis Rosenzweig, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
- 1990 Ihe ngosi afọ iri: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, na Studio Museum na Harlem, New York
- 2013 Ugbu a gwuo ihe a! Nkà na Oji, Los Angeles 1960–1980, MOMA PS1, New York [13]
Ihe nrite na nkwanye ugwu
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- 1982 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation mkpakọrịta [14]
- 1984 Rome Prize (US)
- 1987 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation ihe nrite [15]
Ntụaka
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- ↑ Remembering Houston Conwill (en). Studio Museum in Harlem (January 11, 2018). Retrieved on 2018-03-20.
- ↑ Jeffries (1992). Arthur Carraway and Houston Conwill: ethnicity and re-Africanization in American art. Yale University.
- ↑ Larson. "Corn King", New York Magazine, December 4, 1989.
- ↑ Houston Conwill (1947–2016). www.artforum.com (November 21, 2016). Retrieved on 2018-03-20.
- ↑ MTA - Arts & Design | NYCT Permanent Art (en). web.mta.info. Archived from the original on 2018-03-20. Retrieved on 2018-03-19.
- ↑ "Transit Agency Creates Art Havens in Subways", The New York Times, November 6, 1989. Retrieved on 2018-03-19. (in en)
- ↑ Open Secret (Houston Conwill) (en). www.nycsubway.org. Retrieved on 2018-03-20.
- ↑ "Sculpture "Poets Rise" exterior of Joseph P. Addabbo Federal Building, Jamaica, Queens, New York", The Library of Congress. Retrieved on 2018-03-19. (in en)
- ↑ City of Chicago :: Harold Washington Library (en). www.cityofchicago.org. Retrieved on 2018-03-19.
- ↑ Services. Art en Route - Miami-Dade County (en). www.miamidade.gov. Retrieved on 2018-03-20.
- ↑ "Architectural art "The New Ring Shout" at Ted Weiss Federal Building, New York, New York", The Library of Congress. Retrieved on 2018-03-19. (in en)
- ↑ Afro-American Abstraction | MoMA (en). The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved on 2018-03-19.
- ↑ Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 | MoMA (en). The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved on 2018-03-19.
- ↑ Buie (2008). Houston Conwill Arc, 1986 – Metals and Concrete, span 26 feet. York College, City University of New York. Archived from the original on April 19, 2013. Retrieved on December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Houston Conwill | Now Dig This! digital archive | Hammer Museum (en). Hammer Museum. Retrieved on 2018-03-19.