Berry Campbell Gallery is pleased to announce a survey of paintings by 92-year-old, African-American artist, Frank Wimberley (b. 1926). Wimberley has been known since the 1960s for creating dynamic, multi-layered, abstract paintings described in 2001 by New York Times art critic, Grace Glueck, as “. . . good to behold: beautifully brushed and infused with a light that magnifies their intensity. . .” Frank Wimberley recently exhibited in Acts of Art and Rebuttal, an exhibition revisiting the 1971 exhibition Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition: Black Artists in Rebuttal, at the Hunter College Art Galleries and is currently included in Prime Time, an exhibition at the Islip Art Museum curated by Christine O’Malley through June 2019. Frank Wimberley is exclusively represented by Berry Campbell Gallery. Frank Wimberley will open with an artist’s reception on Thursday, May 30, 2019 from 6 to 8 pm and continues through July 3, 2019.
