Young, Gifted and Black by Antwaun Sargent

Im thrilled to be partnering with the Manetti Shrem Museum team in bringing Young, Gifted and Black to the West Coast, said Lumpkin.

Only five of the artists in Young, Gifted and Black are based on the West Coast, including Sadie Barnette, whose exhibition Dear 1968, was at the Manetti Shrem Museum in 2017. Not only does it introduce some of the most significant artists working today to UC Davis and the region, but its also in keeping with our track record of presenting emerging artists. The Manetti Shrem Museum is excited to host this thought-provoking exhibition, said Founding Director Rachel Teagle. It is installed in the Manetti Shrem Museums lobby through March 2023, coinciding with Young, Gifted and Black. I belong here, a neon sculpture by Tavares Strachan, is also on loan from the Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Collection. The survey is organized around four themes dramatic use of color, reclamation of the color black, materiality (non-traditional materials), and an expanded idea of portraiture. The group includes well-known artists, such as David Hammons, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, Henry Taylor and Kara Walker, as well as a younger generation gaining wider recognition, including Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Sadie Barnette, Cy Gavin, Arcmanoro Niles, Jennifer Packer and others. Young, Gifted and Black gathers and elevates an emerging generation of contemporary artists who are engaging with their predecessors while finding new and different ways to address the history and meaning of blackness in their work. Young, Gifted and Black is curated by Antwaun Sargent and Matt Wycoff and organized for the Manetti Shrem Museum by Associate Curator and Exhibition Department Head Susie Kantor. Initially scheduled to open at the Manetti Shrem Museum in July 2020, but delayed by the pandemic, the exhibition will be on view July 28 through Dec. As a key component of collector and advocate Bernard Lumpkins public education focus, Young, Gifted and Black is traveling primarily to college and university galleries and museums.

Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art is the first public stand-alone exhibition curated from the renowned Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection.

This wide-ranging exhibition highlighting artists of African descent whose work explores identity, politics and art history makes its West Coast debut July 28. The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, at the University of California, Davis is pleased to present Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art.

Young, Gifted and Black by Antwaun Sargent