RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK -- VOTE #AOP2018
ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton
This week, as supporters of President Trump either massacred, murdered or tried to bomb other Americans, the Oakland Museum of California asked visitors, "Do you have faith?" We experienced the museum's temporary public artwork by Chris Johnson this past Tuesday night at the museum, but versions of it are also being shared on billboards throughout Oakland. Johnson's work remixes photographs by celebrated 20th-century documentary photographer Dorothea Lange along with a quote by American preacher and scholar Theodore Parker. When we left Oakland to return home to Indianapolis, we returned with a renewed commitment to promoting faith and fighting racism, and that makes Chris Johnson's "A Question of Faith" our art of the week.
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By Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton
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| Ernest Disney-Britton stands in front of Chris Johnson's "A Question of Faith," a blackboard installation this week at the Oakland Museum of California. Image courtesy of Gregory Disney-Britton |
Are you an artist? Are you a collector? If you like what you see each week, please invite a friend to subscribe to our periodic e-newsletter. You can also follow us weekly on Twitter, Facebook, or Soundcloud but only subscribers can vote for the Alpha Omega Prize. It is our annual recognition each November of one artist's impact on religious dialogue in America.
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| October 2017 - Bill Viola’s decades-spanning video art show in Guangzhou a spiritual pleasure that freezes the viewer to the spot |
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| November 2017 - Makoto Fujimura’s "Charis-Kairos (The Tears of Christ)" at Museum of the Bible during grand opening |
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| December 2017 - "Zoo of Lusts" (2015) by Jeremie Riggleman. Acrylic, photos & resin, Edition of 5 & AP |
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| January 2018 - Karen Fitzgerald's "Annunciation II" (2016), 36” diameter, oil with 23k and 21k gold on panel. |
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| February 2018 - Carole P. Kunstadt's "Sacred Poem XI," 7.5 × 8 × 1.5 in. 24 karat gold leaf, gampi tissue, thread, paper: pages from Parish Psalmody dated 1844. Private Collection |
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| March 2018 - Gary Gee's "Even with a Cracked Crown, a King is Still a King" (2018). Underglaze, hematite, black diamond, and gold luster on ceramic. 6' x 3-1/3" x 3 |
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| April 2018 - Kehinde Wiley's "Lamentation Series" |
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| May 2018 - Patrick McGrath Muniz's "Cruz Y Ficcion" (2018) in CREDO exhibition. Oil on canvas, 42 x 80 inches |
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| June 2018 - Ramon Maiden tattoos Christ, the Virgin Mary and other Christian images |
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| July 2018 - Bill Viola's video game to explore a spiritual journey |
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| August 2018 - Stephen Sawyer's "Calvary" explores heroin addiction |
