Latest News in Black Art features updates and developments in the world of art and related culture ROBERT PETERSON, “Gods favorite,” 2023 (oil on canvas, 72 x 96 inches / 182.9 x 243.84 cm). | © Robert Peterson. Permanent collection of Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio. Courtesy the artist and GAVLAK REPRESENTATION Robert Peterson Joined GAVLAK Gallery GAVLAK gallery announced its representation of the Oklahoma artist Robert Peterson (b. 1981). Peterson’s figurative paintings explore the Black experience, centering family and community and “themes of strength, resilience, and the often unseen softer side of Black life.” He was commissioned by the U.S. Postal Service to paint a portrait of the great novelist Ernest Gaines (1933-2019) for the 46th stamp in the Black Heritage Series, which was issued last year Shortly after, “Robert Peterson: Homecoming,” the rising artist’s first solo museum presentation, opened at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Okla. In September, a solo exhibition of the artist opens at the Wichita Art Museum in Kansas. GAVLAK has locations in Los Angeles, Calif., and Palm Beach, Fla. Peterson is among the artists the gallery is showing next week at Flaming June, a pop-up exhibition in East Hampton, […]
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