Visual Arts

Arts: Looking Forward, Looking Back: Honoring the Legacy of Romare Bearden exhibit

When: Aug. 25-Oct. 26 2011

Davidson College presents the work of mixed-media artist Chris Watts in a show that coincides with the 100th birthday celebration of legendary artist Romare Bearden. Watts' art "remixes imagery from vintage popular culture magazines (Jet, Ebony, LIFE) with paint and collage to comment on the peculiar nature of his present-day social reality in the American south ..." The exhibit also includes sculpture by Kendall Buster.

Carlton Hargro