Memphis Showcases African-American Religious Art

MEMPHIS COMMERCIAL APPEAL
By Fredric Koeppel

Jared Small, “The Good Samaritan,” 2012, oil on panel, Collection of Dina and Brad Martin.

TENNESSEE---Biblical stories and traditions come to artistic life in the exhibition Ashe to Amen: African Americans and Biblical Imagery, opening Sunday at Dixon Gallery and Gardens and showing through Jan. 5, 2014. The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Biblical Art in New York and curated by Leslie King-Hammond, graduate dean emerita and founding director of the Center for Race and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. “Ashe to Amen” features 59 works of art and design dating from the late 19th century to 2012 by nearly 50 artists working with themes of creation, revelation, faith, liberation and identity, what King-Hammond calls “invisible entities.” [link]

Dixon Gallery and Gardens: ‘Ashe to Amen: African Americans and Biblical Imagery’ (Ends January 5, 2014); 4339 Park Avenue, Memphis, TN; (901) 761-5250; dixon.org