Alumna Lorna Simpson: Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970 Part II

Press Release

Part II of “Cinema Remixed and Reloaded” features such established artists as María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Julie Dash, Carroll Parrott Blue, Senga Nengudi, Berni Searle, Lorna Simpson, and Kara Walker, and introduces works by emerging artists including Elizabeth Axtman, Zoë Charlton, Lauren Kelley and Xaviera Simmons. Promising to be equally engaging, Part II continues the explorations raised in Part I, examining such subjects as classic cinema and the male gaze.

Curated by Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph.D., director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and Valerie Cassel Oliver, curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, “Cinema Remixed and Reloaded” traces the evolution of video presentation over three decades, chronicling the critical contributions of black women artists to the field of contemporary art. This collaboration encapsulates the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art’s unique mission as the only museum in the nation that focuses on works by and about women of the African Diaspora. Additionally, the exhibition reinforces the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s commitment to providing a forum for visual arts of the present and recent past to document new directions in the field of contemporary art.

It will be on view at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art through May 24, 2008. The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston will present the exhibition from April 25 through July 12, 2009.

For more information, please contact:
Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph.D., Director
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
350 Spelman Lane, Box 1526
Atlanta, GA 30314
(404) 270-5607 (phone)
(404)270.5980 (fax)
museum@spelman.edu

LOCATION
The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art is located in the Atlanta University Center on the Spelman College campus in the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby Academic Center at 350 Spelman Lane.

HOURS AND ADMISSION The Museum is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m. The Museum is closed Sundays, Mondays, major holidays and official College breaks.

For more information on the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, visit www.spelman.edu/museum. Suggested donation $3/parking $3.