Artwork of the Day!! Sunday, February 28, 2021, by Mike Henderson (born 1944): 'Untitled (View in Vain...)', mixed media, 1977, unique. $1,200.00
Artwork of the Day!! Sunday, February 28, 2021, is by African-American artist /filmmaker/musician Mike Henderson (born 1944). The last day of Black History Month - 2021
Untitled (View in Vain...) is a mixed media work, done with colored pigments, graphite and collage by African-American artist Mike Henderson, done in 1977. The image measures 11-13/16 x 17-3/4" and is pencil signed and dated by the artist in the lower right margin. The composition was painted and drawn by the artist on a sheet of antique-white textured wove paper that measures 14 x 20". The artist added a collaged musical score with the text:"view in vain, / How bless-ed just to look be-yond, / Where".
This painting on paper by Mike Henderson (born 1944) is available from the gallery for $1,200.00. Please contact the gallery with any questions.
Time payments can be arranged. Shipping costs will be discussed. California residents will have sales tax added. Out of state residents may be responsible for use tax, depending on state law.Missouri-born African-American artist Mike Henderson got his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has taught painting and occasionally printmaking at the University of California, Davis in Davis, California and is equally noted as a blues musician and filmmaker.
This 1977 gouache and collage, intimates the influence of the Bay Area Funk Art that many of the UC Davis artists embraced, as well as Henderson's simultaneous work as a blues musician and experimental filmmaker. This surreal landscape, which has a piece of music score attached, feels in part like a stage set. A figure holding a "Stop" sign adds a sense of large scale. His painting later evolved to more abstract compositions. California art critic Thomas Albright in his book "Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945 - 1980" commented about Henderson's work:
"His collage-paintings were gestural abstractions that often comprised fragments of earlier painted canvases that had been torn, burned, and otherwise mutilated."
Wikipedia notes about the Funk Art movement: "Unlike earlier movements, such as Dada and Surrealism, Funk art was not concerned with public morality. Its artists were committed to identifying with their works on a personal level instead of the social or existential. Through their absurdist works, Funk artists demonstrated personal feelings, emotions and processes, and in this way, their work had a closer relationship to nature rather than to culture. The works had creative freedom and demonstrated the artists' lives, personalities, and experiences.
Funk artists treated their work with a sense of humor, senselessness, confrontation, vulgar sexuality, and autobiographical references. In their pieces, Funk artists are sometimes self-deprecating and ironic. Although the works are humorous, they sometimes cover a more serious undertone. Since there was no clear meaning in many pieces, Funk art contains a sense of ambiguity."
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