“Actually Free: The Radical Artwork of Nellie Mae Rowe” is the primary main exhibition of Nellie Mae Rowe’s work in additional than twenty years and the primary to contemplate her apply as a radical act of self-expression and liberation within the post-civil rights-era South. The exhibition, drawn from the gathering of the Excessive Museum of Artwork in Atlanta, affords an unprecedented view of how she cultivated her drawing apply late in life, beginning with colourful and, at instances, easy sketches on discovered supplies and shifting towards her most acclaimed, extremely complicated compositions on paper.
“Actually Free: The Radical Artwork of Nellie Mae Rowe” is organized by the Excessive Museum of Artwork, Atlanta, and curated by Katherine Jentleson, Senior Curator of American Artwork and Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folks and Self-Taught Artwork.
on the California African American Museum (CAAM), Los Angeles
till August 17, 2025
