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Denise Bankuti belongs to an international group of artists new to high culture, as we have known it. The range of her work, the variety of styles employed, the skill demonstrated in all of these, the shifting thematic ideas, the clear emotional and intellectual profundity often present, all bespeak the activity of an artist who has truly crossed the threshold of a new age in the high art of culture we inhabit and simultaneously create.
The artist constructs an alternate reality.
Other people can follow it, but the artist cannot impose it upon them. They must impose it on themselves. If enough people accept the artist's alternate reality, that way it will penetrate and recognize the culture. For the time being, in this paticular time and place. Denise Bankuti's paintings are doing that job for us.
by James Mann
Curator, Las Vegas Art Museum
About Charles White the famous African American Artist:
Charles White’s aspirational artworks chronicled the African American experience during the 20th century. White’s work depicted American American life during the Civil Rights Struggle; he believed that art occupied a central position in the movement and worked to advance its ideals.He was particularly renowned for his use of printmaking and murals to reach a wider audience. White created what he called “images of dignity,” uplifting the African American community and making its history and struggles visible. White was born in Chicago in 1918 and attended the Art Institute of Chicago despite being rejected from several other art schools on the basis of his race. In addition to his work as a painter, White was also a gifted teacher and a leader in his community. After moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s, he took up a position teaching at the Otis Art Institute, where David Hammons, and Kerry James Marshall were among his students. Considered one of the leading figures of post-war black figuration, his oeuvre was celebrated in a major travelling retrospective in 2018 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and The Art Institute of Chicago. Source: Askart; Phillips New York
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DENISE BANKUTI Homage to Charles White with Safari Animals S/N Lithograph 5/300
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