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Oletha DeVane : Traces of the spirit / edited by Virginia M.G. Anderson.

Title
Oletha DeVane : Traces of the spirit / edited by Virginia M.G. Anderson.
Publication
  • Baltimore, MD : The Baltimore Museum of Art, [2019]
  • ©2019

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  • Anderson, Virginia (Virginia M. Genevie),
  • Baltimore Museum of Art, organizer, host institution.
  • King-Hammond, Leslie, 1944-
  • Sims, Lowery Stokes.
Description
86 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
"Projected lights, sounds, and reflective surfaces convey a sense of flowing water in Oletha DeVane's installation, Traces of the Spirit, presented inside the BMA's Spring House. The exhibition references the building's past as a dairy and place where enslaved people were forced to labor and creates an altar-like location for a selection of the artist's spirit sculptures. For these totem-like objects, DeVane (American, b. 1950) adorns hollow glass vessels with pieces from her collection of found objects such as beads, wood, mirrors, plastic figurines, sequins, fabric, and even bullet casings. These elements are applied in conjunction, at times, with small, expressive clay heads shaped by the artist, giving voice and life to the sculptures. DeVane draws upon spiritual and African diasporic traditions to reference stories, prayers, and myths. Snakes, birds, saints, and mermaids populate the dense surfaces. The resulting works evoke the possibilities of spiritual communication and transformation." --BMA website.
Subject
  • African American artists
  • African American sculptors
  • Beadwork
  • DeVane, Oletha, 1950- > Criticism and interpretation
  • DeVane, Oletha, 1950- > Exhibitions
  • DeVane, Oletha, 1950- > Interviews
  • Mixed media sculpture > United States > Exhibitions
  • Mixed media sculpture
  • Sculpture, American
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Art.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Interviews.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of "Oletha DeVane: Traces of the Spirit" an exhibition presented and organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art, June 19, 2019-October 20, 2019.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Director's Foreword / Christopher Bedford -- Artist Statement and Acknowledgments / Oletha DeVane -- The Essence of Being Lies Within Ordinary, Useful/less Stuff, and Tangible Things / Dr. Leslie King-Hammond -- A Calling and Response / Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims -- In Conversation with Oletha DeVane / Dr. Virginia M.G. Anderson -- Plates -- Exhibition History -- The Spirit Sculptures.
Call Number
NB237.D495
ISBN
  • 9780578480282
  • 057848028X
LCCN
2019938138
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries