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Email PageTrail of Tears (The Migrant Series)
June 3, 2006- July 7, 2006
Reception: June 1, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Benny Andrews
ACA Galleries
529 W 20th St Benny Andrews Laggereds (The Trail of Tears Series) (2005) |  Benny Andrews Marching Somewhere West (2005) |
This exhibition was organized by The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans where it premiered in May 2004. The show traveled to ACA Galleries and continued its tour at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia in Virginia Beach, VA. The show has now returned to ACA for a second exhibition, which has been enlarged to include works documenting the journey of Native Americans as they migrated across America.
The series was inspired in part by the American authors John Steinbeck, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O’Connor and Langston Hughes as well as Andrews’ own mixed heritage and ancestry. He initiated the series to reflect the migratory routes and experiences that influenced the lives of countless Americans including those of his own family.
Born in 1930, the son of sharecroppers in rural Georgia, much of Andrews’ art is tied to recollections of his family and his life in the south. In 1954 he attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago then moved to New York City in 1958.
His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; Ogden Museum, New Orleans; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago and High Museum, Atlanta.
He is a member of the National Academy of Design Museum and was the Director of the Visual Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts from 1982-1984.
The complete Migrant Series will be on view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans during the winter of 2007 and will travel to several venues nation-wide.
Andrews will also be the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the Wadsworth Athenaeum in 2007.
Four children’s books illustrated by Andrews have recently been released: Delivering Justice, Treasure and Truth, Congressman John Lewis and The Poetry of Langston Hughes.
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show
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