VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

Round 29 artists Terry Adkins, James Andrew Brown, Sherman Fleming, Charles Gaines and George Smith will be at Project Row Houses for the closing of Round 29:  THUNDERBOLT SPECIAL .

The music of Lightnin’ Hopkins will be performed during the reception by Houston’s own Oscar O’Bear. R.   Following the reception will be a performance by the Round 29 artists under the alias of The Lone Wolf Recital Corps, The Sacred Order of the Twilight Brothers and Blanche Bruce. The performance will include a variety of musically based vignettes that relate to the life and art of Lightnin’ Hopkins.

About the artists:
• Terry Adkins is Professor of Fine Arts at The University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Adkins is an installation artist and musician who lives and works in Brooklyn and Philadelphia.

• James Andrew Brown is an Associate Professor at The William Paterson University of New Jersey. Mr. Brown stated, “I began as a painter, but my work has undergone a steady expansion into large-scale installations I call, visual experiences, which draws from life. Drawing has been a means of exploring visual communication, and it has been a great part of my creative experience.”

• Sherman Fleming is a visual and performance artist who has exhibited for 26 years across the U.S. as well as The Netherlands and Japan. Mr. Fleming is Program Coordinator for ArtWorks! Mural Art Program’s anti-truancy project in Philadelphia.

• Charles Gaines has focused on the postmodern and metonymy to make art that combines drawn or photographic images with text. His art addresses the irreconcilable opposition, in classical theory, between the conditions of feelings and the conditions of culture which negate each other in the same experience.

• George Smith received his B.F.A. in sculpture from The San Francisco Arts Institute and received and M.F.A. from Hunter College in New York City. Mr. Smith’s sculptures and drawings are inspired by a continuous interest in polygonal and fractal geometry combined with geometric forms witnessed in traditional African sculpture and architecture.