Acts of Art in Greenwich Village
Through March 22. Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, 132 East 68th Street, Manhattan; 212-772-4991, huntercollegeart.org.
...A few of these artists — Benny Andrews (1930-2006), Loïs Mailou Jones (1905-98), Hale Woodruff (1900-80) — are now canonical stars. Others are less familiar, but no less treasurable. All of their work is, just by existing when and where it did, politically loaded, though almost none is overtly polemical. Nor is there uniformity of subject matter, style or medium. Figurative art dominates, from Dindga McCannon’s jazzy painted portraits, to a haunting biblical narrative by Ann Tanksley, to Lloyd Toone’s African-inspired sculptures made from scrap wood, shoe leather and nails. But Ademola Olugebefola’s etchings take us close to abstraction, and the torn-paper collages of Frank Wimberley take us all the way there. (A survey of Wimberley’s work goes on view at Berry Campbell Gallery in Chelsea starting on Thursday.)
— Holland Cotter, The New York Times
