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 5
» 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
» Vivienne E. Browne
Born, 1929 in Laurel, Florida, USA
» Ed/Edward Clark
Born, 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
» Larry/Lawrence Wm. Compton/Compton Kolawole
Born, 1931 in Beaumont, Texas
» Adger Cowans
Born, 1936
» Beauford Delaney
Born, 1901. Died, 1978
» Ray Grist
Born, 1939 in New York, USA
» Bill Hutson
Born, 1936 in San Marcos, Texas, USA
» Zell Ingram
Born, 1910 in Carrothersville, Ohio. Died, 1971
» Harlan Jackson
Born, 1918. Died, 1993
» Daniel Johnson/LaRue Johnson
Born, 1938 in Los Angeles, CA, USA
» Ronald Joseph
Born, 1910 in St. Kitts, British West Indies
» Norman Lewis
Born, 1909. Died, 1979
» Al/Alvin Loving
Born, 1935. Died, 2005
» Richard Mayhew
Born, 1924 in Amityville, New York, USA
» Algernon Miller
Born, 1945 in New York, USA
» Mary Lovelace O’Neal
Born, 1942 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA
» Joe Overstreet
Born, 1934 in Conehatta, MS, USA
» Howardena Pindell
Born, 1943 in Philadelphia, PA, USA
» Haywood Bill Rivers
Born, 1922. Died, 2002
» Thomas Sills
Born, 1914 in Castalia, North Carolina, USA
» Thelma Johnson Streat
Born, 1912 in Yakima, Washington, USA. Died, 1959
» Alma Thomas
Born, 1886 - 1896 (probably 1891). Died, 1978
» Mildred Thompson
Born, 1936 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA
» William White
Born, 1937 in Washington, D.C., USA. Died, 1968
» Jack Whitten
Born, 1939 in Bessemer, Alabama, USA
» William T. Williams
Born, 1942 in Cross Creek, NC, USA
» Frank Wimberley
Born, 1926 in Pleasantville, New Jersey, USA
» Hale Woodruff
Born, 1900 in Cairo, Illinois, USA. Died, 1980