Kenkeleba Gallery
New York, New York, USA, United States of America
Kenkeleba Gallery, Kenkeleba House was the venue for The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945-1975. The exhibition’s dates were May 19 - July 14, 1991. The exhibition featured some 35 artists.
The catalogue for the exhibition noted that “Kenkeleba House provides an alternative exhibition environment for artist (sic) known and less well known.
The name Kenkeleba is derived from that of a Combretum plant grown in Senegambia and known for its spiritual and nutritional value.”
Related items
» The Search For Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945-1975
Catalogue relating to an exhibition, 1991
Exhibitions at this venue
» The Search For Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945-1975
Group show at Kenkeleba Gallery. 1991
People who have appeared at this venue + view all 34
» Charles Alston
Born, 1907 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Died, 1977
» Romare Bearden
Born, 1911 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Died, 1988
» Betty Blayton-Taylor
Born, 1937 in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
» (Sir) Frank Bowling OBE, RA
Born, 1935 - 1937 (probably 1936) in British Guiana (now Guyana) Caribbean/S. America
» Peter Bradley
Born, 1940 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA