Title: Purvis Youn g- Untitled Date/Period: 20th CArtist: Purvis YoungDimension: 14 x 15Material: Paint on industrial fabricProvenance:Horses - Outsider Folk Art Gallery proudly presents a selection of the "Purvis of Overtown" collection, assembled for the making of the "Purvis of Overtown" documentary film by its Director, David Raccuglia. The body of work, collected over six years, consists of over 1100 works of art dating from the early 1970s-2004. This vast grouping spanned over thirty years of Purvis Young's career. Most of the pieces that we are currently offering were done on industrial fabrics. Purvis Young substituted a lack of formal education with intensive reading and study and was sophisticated about the history of art. He applied his personal world view to the medium of paint to create a visual language that expressed his concerns as much as it captured the life of the people and city that surrounded him. After learning of the "Freedom Walls" created by artists in Detroit and Chicago, Young decided in 1972, to create his own public mural at the intersection of Northwest Third Avenue and 14th Street in Overtown, Miami's inner-city coined "Good Bread Alley." The installation was visible from the newly constructed Interstate 95, which had all but dissected and consequently isolated his community from the rest of South Florida. Representing Young's unique view on life is a symbolic vocabulary where city street scenes move to the rhythm of life, wild horses roam free, "eyes of establishment" loom over, ancient warriors do battle, immigrant-laden boats set sail, legendary jazz and blues performers rip. It is here that Purvis Young easily, yet effectively, expressed his true feelings. Young's painterly style, palette, and materials evolve over time, while much imagery stays constant to form an iconic language, and hopeful, passionate artistic statements remain the core of the work throughout his oeuvre.
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