The Houston Museum of African American Culture
Now and Forever: The Journey Never Ends
The Art of Floyd Newsum
September 17-November 3, 2016
! Floyd Newsum’s thought-provoking environments project strong and vibrant
colors with lots of energy, invoking a wide range of viewer emotions. His
work at its best, with subject matter that centers on political statements,
world events and cultural climates, presents us with spiritual and philosophical
challenges. Although he has confessed that his use of symbols like the
bird, dog, and ladder have personal meaning to him, he has consistently resisted
presenting them as a concrete narrative for the viewer. Newsum
suggests symbolic interpretation has meaning for us within the fluid contexts
of our lives; best understood as the moving forwardness of our singular
journeys that ultimately transition but never end, that are Now and Forever.
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! Floyd Newsum, a
painter and printmaker for over four decades, has been in
over 80 solo and group exhibitions, with his work displayed at the Taft Museum
in Cincinnati; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Studio Museum in
Harlem, New York; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Museum of Fine
Arts Houston; Philadelphia Museum of Arts; Polk Museum, Lakeland Florida;
and the David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland College Park. !
His works are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Museum
of African History and Culture, Washington DC; Philadelphia Museum
of Arts; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Art Museum at Arizona State University
in Tempe, Arizona; David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland College
Park; Art Museum of South Texas; and other museums and institutions.
His works have been published in catalogs, books and magazines. Although
known for his paintings on paper, he has created prints, drawing and sculptures,
the latter the medium for four of his six public art commissions. !
Floyd Newsum is a Houstonian by way of Memphis. Currently a University of
Houston Downtown Art Instructor, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the
Memphis Academy of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from the Tyler School of
Art, Temple University.
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