 – Opening Saturday March 8, 2025 at the North Carolina Museum of Art is an exhibition, “The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure” featuring…){kind=link}
RALEIGH, NC (PNAN) – Opening Saturday March 8, 2025 at the North Carolina Museum of Art is an exhibition, “The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure” featuring the work of 23 contemporary African diasporic artists from the United States and United Kingdom, with a focus on works of art that depict and celebrate the Black figure from the perspective of Black artists.
“We are thrilled to bring this exhibition to North Carolina,” says Museum director Valerie Hillings. “It is a powerful and thought-provoking experience celebrating the unique experiences, narratives, voices, and perspectives of a remarkable group of contemporary Black artists.”
Taking its title from an essay on desegregation by American writer and social rights activist James Baldwin, ‘The Time Is Always’ through various artist’s work in figuration such as, Michael Armitage, Claudette Johnson, Titus Kaphar, Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Amy Sherald, Lorna Simpson, they are more exhibiting artists, illuminate the richness, joy, beauty and complexity of Black life.
Themes throughout the exhibition invite a shift in the dominant art historical perspective, from “looking at” the Black figure to “seeing through” the eyes of Black artists and the figures they depict.
On view through June 29, 2025, for a list of other featured programming with this exhibit, see https://ncartmuseum.org/the-time-is-always-now-artists-reframe-the-black-figure.