Purvis Young: Drawings Featured Committed to sharing social realities

Committed to sharing social realities through fantastic

with this body of work Abney asks how viewers gender a figure in a work of art

She has curated exhibitions on Damien Hirst (2012) and Hélio Oiticica (2007) at Tate Modern

BOOK EDITORS: AMANDA KEELEY

Musk and Sandalwood

Purvis Young: Drawings Featured Committed to sharing social realitiesThrough his body of work, Purvis Young (b. 1943, Miami; d. 2010, Miami) built an expressive record and a political commentary on life in the Miami neighborhood of Overtown. Realized on found and often distressed supports, Youngs works are populated by a recurring set of motifs that includes angels and ancestors, refugees and prisoners, pregnant women and protestors, soldiers, and workersall drawn from his immediate environment and from the aspirations