Black Wall Street Journey #5
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
This zigzagging collage suggests at once a grid-likemapping of urban space and a fragmented history preserved by place and by memory. The painting relates to the social practice aspect of Rick Lowe’s body of work around the 1921 Tulsa Massacre. In this act of racial violence, one deliberately written out of mainstream U.S. history, white Oklahomans destroyed the prosperous Black neighborhood and business district of Greenwood (commonly known as Black Wall Street), killing nearly three hundred residents and displacing thousands more. To mark the centennial of this harrowing event, Lowe launched a series of art and public history projects in order to call attention to the tragedies, personal stories, and ongoing legacies of Black Wall Street.
Caption
Rick Lowe (American, born 1961). Black Wall Street Journey #5, 2021. Acrylic and paper collage on canvas, 108 × 192 in. (274.3 × 487.7 cm) each panel: 36 × 48 in. (91.4 × 121.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Mary Smith Dorward Fund and William K. Jacobs, Jr. Fund, 2021.4a-l. © Rick Lowe. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Black Wall Street Journey #5
Date
2021
Medium
Acrylic and paper collage on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
108 × 192 in. (274.3 × 487.7 cm) each panel: 36 × 48 in. (91.4 × 121.9 cm)
Credit Line
Mary Smith Dorward Fund and William K. Jacobs, Jr. Fund
Accession Number
2021.4a-l
Rights
© Rick Lowe
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