Santa Monica Museum of Art
Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Ave, Building G-1
310.586.6488
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Barkley L. Hendricks, Miss T (1969), Courtesy of the Santa Monica Museum of Art
- When
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Opens Friday May 15, 2009 (7–11pm)
May 16, 2009 – Aug 22, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
- Where
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Directions: From the 10 West: Take Cloverfield exit onto Cloverfield Blvd., north. Take first right onto Michigan Ave. Michigan Ave. ends at Bergamot Station parking lot. Parking is free.
- Price
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$5 suggested donation
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Imagine the florid, hyper-decorative seduction of Kehinde Wiley's large-scale portraits of young black men, only rendered with an urban, folk-outsider edge, and you get a rough idea of what Barkley Hendricks' art has been about for decades. Working largely in the cities of the Northeast, Hendricks spent years painting life-size portraits of everyday people from the neighborhood, at a time when Black fashion, music, and hair were all at their biggest. This much-anticipated exhibition brings these works together for a survey spanning both years and sociopolitical contexts.
