FRANK WIMBERLEY: STRATUM
April 30 - June 5, 2022
Reception: April 30, 5-7 pm
Untitled Composition, 1996, Acrylic on canvas, 54 x 56 inches
The Arts Center at Duck Creek is proud to present the exhibition Frank Wimberley: Stratum opening on Saturday, April 30, and on view through June 5, 2022. A reception for the artist will be held from 5-7 pm on Saturday, April 30.
Frank Wimberley is a well-known presence in the art scene on the East End of Long Island and a major figure in African American art since the 1960s. While Wimberley has created an abundance of vibrant abstract canvases throughout his extensive career, this exhibition will focus on works that seem to evoke the atmospheric qualities of the East End landscape, infused with the rhythmic cadences of the jazz music that is his lifelong passion. His spontaneous approach, analogous to jazz improvisation, results in gestural elegance and formal complexity. Blending paint with pumice, fabric and paper, and using tools like a palette knife and scraper, he creates richly textured, multilayered compositions. The resulting topography in each work
Untitled Composition,1996 reads like an archeological dig through his processes.
Wimberley has made collages throughout his career, and several are included in the exhibition. In a video interview with Nanette Carter, the artist describes the ways in which the collage process contributed to the development of his painting practice: “I started to make collages in order to teach myself to paint, because painting is a construction of layers.” This spring, Carter will join Wimberley at Duck Creek to discuss the evolution of the nonagenarian’s distinguished career that spans over six decades.
Frank Wimberley (b. 1926, Pleasantville, New Jersey), a 2022 inductee into the Guild Hall Academy of the Arts, has lived and worked in Sag Harbor since 1965. His work has been exhibited widely, and is included in numerous museum and corporate collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York; The Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri; the Art Institute of Chicago; Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York; Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York; Time Warner, New York; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. He is represented by Berry Campbell Gallery, New York. www.berrycampbell.com
More details about this artist can be found at www.frankwimberleyart.com and at www.berrycampbell.com
For further information about the exhibition contact duck@duckcreekarts.org