Thu 11/2-Sat 11/25
American artist/educator Elizabeth Catlett was known primarily for her intricately detailed prints and drawings, as well as her sculptures. They usually depicted African-Americans, both archetypes (particularly women) and noted individuals such as Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., drawing on both African and Mexican folk art. (She lived in Mexican for a significant part of her adult life and at one point renounced her U.S. citizenship.)
Cleveland’s newest gallery, Lusenhop Fine Art in Cleveland Heights, is a tiny storefront showing important African-American art, and this week a collection of linocuts and lithographs made by Catlett from 1947 through 2005 go on display.
They include color impressions of her well-known “Sharecropper” image as well as “My right is a future of equality with other Americans,” and what it describes as “a pristine impression of the 1992 color lithograph New Generation” with proceeds from its sale going to the Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society in Oberlin, which preserves this Underground Railroad safe house built by African American abolitionist Wilson Bruce Evans and his family.
Gallery hours are Thursday through Saturday 2 11am-5pm. The works will be on view through Saturday November 25.
2248 Lee Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118