Winfred Rembert Art
American, 1945-2021
A native of Cuthbert, Georgia, Winfred Rembert spent his childhood as a fieldworker in the pre-civil rights South. Brought up by his great-aunt ("Mama"), Rembert painted stories that look back to his youth in the days of segregation. Despite the often grim working conditions he encountered (not to mention a near-lynching and years spent on a prison chain gang), Rembert's works focus on the joyous aspects of black life in the 1950s South — the strong family and community bonds, the cultural vibrancy, and the many colorful characters that lifted the spirits of those who had little choice but to labor in the region's cotton and peanut fields.
Marked by tactile surfaces, saturated colors, and lively, rhythmic patterning, Rembert's works are painted on leather sheets that he hand tools and then dyes. These energetic compositions — with their engaging narratives of life in the rural South — have brought Rembert comparisons to noted African-American artists Hale Woodruff, Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin, and Romare Bearden. Rembert, who was self-taught, lived and worked in New Haven, Connecticut. His paintings are represented in a number of important public and private collections, and were the subject of a major exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery in 2000.
In recent years, Rembert has had solo shows at the Hudson River Museum (Yonkers, NY), The Greenville County Museum of Art (Greenville, SC), The Citadelle Art Foundation (Canadian, TX), The Flint Institute of Arts (Flint, MI), the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Montgomery, AL), and the Danforth Art Museum (Framingham, MA). He is the subject of two award-winning documentary films, “All Me: The Life and Time of Winfred Rembert” (dir. Vivian Ducat, 2011) and the New Yorker documentary “Ashes to Ashes” (dir. Taylor Rees, 2019), about the legacy of lynching in America. The book “Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South” by Winfred Rembert, as told to Erin I. Kelly, with a foreword by Bryan Stevenson, was published in September 2021.(Biography provided by Adelson Galleries)
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Artist: Winfred Rembert
Miss Prather's Class
By Winfred Rembert
Located in New York, NY
Color Reduction woodcut from 4 blocks with 4 silk screen colors and embossing on white Rives BFK paper
Edition 28/30, Unframed
MassArt welcomed artist Winfred Rembert for the 2014 Master Print Series, an artist in residency project during which, an established artist transforms an idea into physical artwork, and invites students to collaborate in the art-making process.
A self-taught artist, Winfred Rembert records a painful chapter of American history in autobiographical paintings, created on hand-tooled and dyed leather, which explore the lives of African Americans in Jim Crow-era Georgia. After taking part in civil rights demonstrations, he survived a lynching only to be sent to prison to do hard labor on a chain gang. Another inmate taught him leatherworking and Rembert began depicting his past in engaging compositions and vibrant color. In many scenes, Rembert offers a raw view of racism, inequality, and violence while celebrating his community’s resilience in the face of such overwhelming injustice.
Winfred Rembert also participated in the Adderley Lecture series, which features distinguished artists, historians, and writers and was established in 1995 in memory of Tyrone Maurice Adderley. Past Adderley lecturers have included Chakaia Booker, Melvin Edwards...
Category
2010s Folk Art Winfred Rembert Art
Materials
Woodcut, Screen
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