Virtual Art Talk with Thomas Germano - American Painter Barkley Hendricks

As part of the Library's celebration of Black History Month, join us for a virtual program about Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017), who was a contemporary American painter from Philadelphia. Hendricks first worked in the medium of photography before attending Yale University in the 1960s. He is best known for his life-sized painted portraits beginning in the 1960s, of Black Americans living in urban areas. His painted figures have unique personalities, exuding attitude and style, and presented as contemporary steeped in pop culture yet are anchored in the history of art. Barkley Hendricks’s painted portraits combine an unconventional realism with a masterly execution. The subjects have a confrontational directness softened by their humorous titles. Professor Thomas Germano will present a visual lecture about Hendricks’s art, his portraiture, and his epoch.

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