LINK to review per RHYTHMISM; Art As Social Change Making solo exhibition at the stately Gordon Parks Arts Hall of the University of Chicago's Laboratory School's Corvus Gallery.
Insightful Curators, Forward thinking Collectors, Major Art Collecting Museums and Scholars of Contemporary Art will appreciate this note:
This is a rare powerful mini retrospective styled visual art exhibition that exudes Rhythmismtic visual artist's Prof. Turtel Onlii creative life of 'winning the peace'. Which is what he calls taking the narratives in visual art derived from or of the Black American Experience beyond the narrow confines of celebrating suffering, poverty or oppression. Here Onli shows that Rhythmism in a well though- out, standards' changing genre in the visual arts.
Intelligence and talent meets industrious vision and effort sustained over five decades.
Onli offers the manifestation of self-determination as the foundation to winning the peace. His practice serves notice to many that there is much more going on in the Black American experience than legacies of oppression or the self-destructive impact of thug-life.
Though Onli has had a dynamic five decades plus practice in Fine and Commercial Visual Art plus Art Education and Therapy mainstream galleries, elite Black Curators and Black Art gallerists tend to avoid his revolutionary innovatively successful efforts in expanding the canon of the visual arts to accept and invest in a genre named, developed and expressed by an intelligent, gifted, dedicated Black Male. They are so about protecting the Arts Establishment and serving the needs and dictates of the status quo they will only endorse terms, styles, or artists anointed by their financial handlers or professional superiors. These are the types of folks that would have never given the likes of Van Gogh recognition in his life time! So much for artistic diversity.......as Onli is still winning that peace achieved by so many in the United States of America.
A simple internet or Wiki search supports this curiosity.
