Painters on Painters: Basquiat

This Black History Month program will kick off the Maplewood Library’s Painters on Painters series, presentations focusing on the lives and works of artists, hosted by Gerard Amsellem and Mikel Frank, the Visual Passion Duo.

With special guest, artist Onnie Strother, this talk will focus on Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). An African American artist who started out as a street graffiti artist on the Lower East Side, by the early 1980s he became one of the youngest artists to achieve international success and be included in the Whitney Biennial. This talk will touch on Basquiat's childhood, his struggles with his quick rise in the art world, his drug addiction, and the impact these factors had on his work.

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