Sanford Biggers, Claire Campbell Park, Sonya Clark, Liliana Porter, Soledad Salamé, Joyce J. Scott, Elizabeth Talford Scott, Alan Shields, Jo Smail, and Paula Wilson
Sonya Clark The Bluest, Twisted, 2023-2024
Lithograph on Rives BFK paper
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
Edition of 30
Published by Goya Contemporary / Goya-Girl Press
Sonya Clark The Huest Eye, 2023-2024
Embroidered thread on Rives BFK paper
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
Edition of 12
Published by Goya Contemporary / Goya-Girl Press
Sanford Biggers Psyche, 2009-2011
Color lithograph with hand sewn thread
43 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. (109.9 x 64.8 cm)
Edition of 30
Published by Goya Contemporary / Goya-Girl Press
Big-0038-CO
Alan Shields Gas-Up, 1984
Woodcut, etching, aquatint, relief, knotting, collage on handmade paper
Print: 56 1/2 x 40 in. (143.5 x 101.6 cm)
Frame: 60 x 43.5 in. (152.4 x 110.5 cm)
Edition 20 of 46
Shie-1002-C
Jo Smail Three-Leafed Clover and Half a Melon, 2004
Lithograph
15 1/2 x 19 in. (35.6 x 36.2 cm)
Edition of 25
Published by Goya Contemporary / Goya-Girl Press
SMA-0169-O
Jo Smail Three Needles and Four Threads, 2004
Solar Plate Etching
15 1/2 x 19 in. (35.6 x 36.2 cm)
Edition of 25
Published by Goya Contemporary / Goya-Girl Press
SMA-0123-O
Claire Campbell Park Meditation: Steadfast, 2021
Woven painted paper
Paper: 5.87 x 5.13 in. (14.9 x 13 cm)
Frame: 14.63 x 11.63 in. (37.16 x 11.63 cm)
Park-1031-C
Claire Campbell Park Meditation: Wings III, 2021
Woven painted paper
Paper: 6 x 4.38 in. (15.2 x 11.1 cm)
Frame: 14.63 x 11.63 in. (37.16 x 29.54 cm)
Park-1029-C
Sonya Clark Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing, 2021
Archival pigment print on perforated piano paper
Diptych, 11 1/4 x 15 in. (28.57 x 38.1 cm) each
Variable edition of 20
Clar-1038-C
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" – often referred to as “the Black national anthem” in the United States – is a hymn written in 1900 as a poem by James Weldon Johnson, and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, for the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Within this diptych, Clark uses repurposed, perforated piano paper to present the first verse of the lyrics which reads:
“Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on till victory is won.”
The second panel repeats the verse using Sonya Clark’s font, invented by the artist using her own hair to shape each letter. At the turn of the 20th century, Johnson's lyrics eloquently captured the solemn yet hopeful appeal for the liberty of Black Americans. Clarks work, like much of her work, redresses history while pointing to the inequalities of the present day.
