About The Work
Night Watchers is one in a series of four mixed media works painted on leather and mounted on mdf that incorporate historical photographs of Black figures. This series was exhibited in Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022, and And the Beat Goes On at Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA in 2022.
Much of Richard Watson's works deal with the American past, and how African Americans have fit into, or been left out, of mainstream narratives. As Watson describes,"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements of "real life" collaged and collapsed, as dreams are prone to do. If connections are made, all the better. I feel that life should remind us of our dreams."
About Richard J. Watson
Acrylic, leather, mdf, photographs, mixed media
24.00 x 22.00 x 1.00 in
61.0 x 55.9 x 2.5 cm
This work is signed by the artist.
About The Work
Night Watchers is one in a series of four mixed media works painted on leather and mounted on mdf that incorporate historical photographs of Black figures. This series was exhibited in Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022, and And the Beat Goes On at Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA in 2022.
Much of Richard Watson's works deal with the American past, and how African Americans have fit into, or been left out, of mainstream narratives. As Watson describes,"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements of "real life" collaged and collapsed, as dreams are prone to do. If connections are made, all the better. I feel that life should remind us of our dreams."
About Richard J. Watson
- This work is framed. Frame measurements are 24.50" x 22.50" x 1.00".
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