Art Historian Cherise Smith Book on Provocative Black Artist Michael Ray Charles
Art historian Cherise Smith’s new book, MICHAEL RAY CHARLES: A Retrospective, is an in-depth examination of the art of its namesake, a Black artist whose provocative paintings recast images of racism in consumer culture. Michael Ray Charles had his first solo exhibition at a major museum in 1997 at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.
Cherise Smith is Chair of African & African Diaspora Studies Department and Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.
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