“Hard Art” at PS1 in Queens examines the legacy of 40 Black artists working in abstraction from 1969 through the present. It builds on the legacy of exhibitions that foregrounded modernist aesthetics as a refusal to conform to representational approaches, bringing into focus abstraction’s nuanced relationship to identity and Blackness. Abstraction with soul!
Ed Clark’s sweeping brushstrokes are so large he used a broom to paint this.
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