Eric's Perspective Feat. Artis Lane
07/14/22 • 54 min
In this episode, Eric sits down with the legendary artist Artis Lane... where they discuss her life as a young girl having emigrated from Canada to Michigan and formative experiences she had that later informed her artwork. They discuss her travels as a young adult to South Africa and exposure to apartheid.. Her prolific and celebrated artistic career that includes her exceptional portrait work, her focus on social issues and sculpture including her bust of Abolitionist and Suffragette Sojourner Truth that was unveiled by First Lady Michelle Obama and most recently her contemporary work that deals in the realm of Metaphysics.
For more visit: www.ericsperspective.com
Guest Bio: Artis Lane is a Black Canadian sculptor and painter who was born in North Buxton, a small town near Chatham in Ontario, Canada, in a community largely populated by the descendants of slaves who emigrated to Canada on the Underground Railroad. At two years old her family moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan where she started developing her interests in drawing and painting. Upon graduating high school, she received a scholarship to attend the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Ontario. After receiving her degree, she moved to Detroit, Michigan newly married to her husband, journalist Bill Lane. While there, she continued her education at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Artis Lane's sculpture are primarily concerned with portraying what she sees as enduring spiritual truths. These truths are that the growth of spiritual awareness is continuous and that nobody ever arrives at perfection. In addition, spiritual awareness connects humans with a universal force."
Her commissions include a series of bronze portraits for the Soul Train Awards, a bronze portrait of Rosa Parks for the Smithsonian Institution and designing the original logo for the Dance Theatre of Harlem. She has made sculptures of prominent people as former President George H. W. Bush, Bill Cosby, Walter Annenberg, Michael Jordan, Gordon Getty, Nelson Mandela and Henry Kissinger. The National Congress of Black Women commissioned Lane to create a bronze bust depicting women's-right advocate and abolitionist Sojourner Truth. The bust was unveiled on April 28, 2009 by First Lady Michelle Obama for permanent display in the Emancipation Hall at the Capitol Visitor Centre. The Women's Caucus for Art, making Truth the first black woman to be honored with a bust at U.S. Capitol. Lane was honored in 2013 as recipient of the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award.
About Eric's Perspective: A podcast series on African American art with Eric Hanks — African American art specialist, owner of the renowned M. Hanks Gallery and commissioner on the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; offers his perspective on African American art through in-depth conversations with fellow art enthusiasts where they discuss the past, present & future of African American art.
For more on Eric's Perspective, visit www.ericsperspective.com
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In this episode, Eric sits down with the legendary artist Artis Lane... where they discuss her life as a young girl having emigrated from Canada to Michigan and formative experiences she had that later informed her artwork. They discuss her travels as a young adult to South Africa and exposure to apartheid.. Her prolific and celebrated artistic career that includes her exceptional portrait work, her focus on social issues and sculpture including her bust of Abolitionist and Suffragette Sojourner Truth that was unveiled by First Lady Michelle Obama and most recently her contemporary work that deals in the realm of Metaphysics.
For more visit: www.ericsperspective.com
Guest Bio: Artis Lane is a Black Canadian sculptor and painter who was born in North Buxton, a small town near Chatham in Ontario, Canada, in a community largely populated by the descendants of slaves who emigrated to Canada on the Underground Railroad. At two years old her family moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan where she started developing her interests in drawing and painting. Upon graduating high school, she received a scholarship to attend the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Ontario. After receiving her degree, she moved to Detroit, Michigan newly married to her husband, journalist Bill Lane. While there, she continued her education at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Artis Lane's sculpture are primarily concerned with portraying what she sees as enduring spiritual truths. These truths are that the growth of spiritual awareness is continuous and that nobody ever arrives at perfection. In addition, spiritual awareness connects humans with a universal force."
Her commissions include a series of bronze portraits for the Soul Train Awards, a bronze portrait of Rosa Parks for the Smithsonian Institution and designing the original logo for the Dance Theatre of Harlem. She has made sculptures of prominent people as former President George H. W. Bush, Bill Cosby, Walter Annenberg, Michael Jordan, Gordon Getty, Nelson Mandela and Henry Kissinger. The National Congress of Black Women commissioned Lane to create a bronze bust depicting women's-right advocate and abolitionist Sojourner Truth. The bust was unveiled on April 28, 2009 by First Lady Michelle Obama for permanent display in the Emancipation Hall at the Capitol Visitor Centre. The Women's Caucus for Art, making Truth the first black woman to be honored with a bust at U.S. Capitol. Lane was honored in 2013 as recipient of the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award.
About Eric's Perspective: A podcast series on African American art with Eric Hanks — African American art specialist, owner of the renowned M. Hanks Gallery and commissioner on the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; offers his perspective on African American art through in-depth conversations with fellow art enthusiasts where they discuss the past, present & future of African American art.
For more on Eric's Perspective, visit www.ericsperspective.com
#ERICSPERSPECTIVE #AFRICANAMERICAN #ART
SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/2vVJkDn
LISTEN ON:
Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2B6wB3U
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3j6QRmW
Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fNNgrY
iHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/2KtYGXv
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Connect with us ONLINE:
Visit Eric's Perspective website: https://bit.ly/2ZQ41x1
Facebook: https://bit.ly/3jq5fXP
Instagram: https://bit.ly/39jFZxG
Twitter: https://bit.ly/2OMRx33
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Eric's Perspective Feat. Yrneh Gabon
In this episode, Eric sits down with multidisciplinary artist and activist Yrneh Gabon who opens up about growing up in Jamaica, how his passion for art and expression grew, studying art, music and theatre as a young boy.. to eventually competing in national competitions, leaving school and entering the professional world of filmmaking, art and performance which lead him to an exciting and multifaceted global career in the arts. What lead him back to higher education and the mentors that have inspired and supported him along the way. They discuss Gabon’s travels to Africa and how it has informed his artwork.. that combines various missions that he has advocated for; including people affected by Albinism, visiting Tanzania for research and ultimately lobbying for and even testifying at the United Nations about his findings.. his ecological activism and his exciting upcoming projects and exhibitions.
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Guest Bio: Yrneh Gabon Brown is a Jamaican born, Multi-disciplinary, Mixed media and performance artist based in Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) BFA with (Hons) and Otis College of Arts and Design, (MFA). Yrneh is a multi-disciplinary artist that seeks to balance and intersect artistic representation with social activism and social commentary, particularly regarding issues pertinent to Africa and people within its Diaspora. In 2014, after travels and research in Tanzania, Jamaica and across America, Gabon was given his first solo and major body of work at the California African American Museum CAAM entitled “Visibly Invisible”; Albinism in Tanzania, Jamaica, and the USA through his eyes. “Visibly Invisible” Focused on the killings, the hunting and mistreatment of people born with Albinism, and brought attention to the plight of people living with Albinism particularly in East Africa and was instrumental in speaking at the United Nation, in New York advocating for the passing of the bill that protects people with Albinism around the world. His ongoing project is an Operetta on ecological Climate Change entitled “Memba Mi Tell Yu/Listen Up Take Note” bringing awareness to the nexus of ecological climate change dealing with fire and water. His current project phase 2 “Ditched the Salt” focuses on salt consumption, sensitivity and its relationship and history with people of color.
About Eric's Perspective: A podcast series on African American art with Eric Hanks — African American art specialist, owner of the renowned M. Hanks Gallery and commissioner on the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; offers his perspective on African American art through in-depth conversations with fellow art enthusiasts where they discuss the past, present & future of African American art.
For more on Eric's Perspective, visit www.ericsperspective.com
#ERICSPERSPECTIVE #AFRICANAMERICAN #ART
SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/2vVJkDn
LISTEN ON:
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Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3j6QRmW
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About Eric Hanks: African American art specialist, owner of the renowned M. Hanks Gallery and commissioner on the Los An
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Eric's Perspective Feat. Todd Cochran
In this episode, Eric sits down with accomplished musician, composer, essayist and abstract artist Todd Cochran. They discuss how he was born in San Francisco and raised in a household of deep love for the arts; filled with music and conversations about art and culture. Growing up in the Lakeview district; a largely Black but racially mixed neighborhood and community.. and the influential role that his maternal grandmother, an ordained minister, evangelist and protofeminist played throughout Todd’s childhood. They discuss his musical training and private study in piano and performing arts in classical music and theory; to eventually attending Trinity College of Music in London. He sheds light on his experience of living in San Francisco during the 60s and 70s, his exposure to jazz and how his musical development was impacted by the cultural, political and community atmosphere of the civil rights movement; which fueled his passion for creating art that mirrored the socio-cultural moment and set the path for his prolific and inspiring musical career. They discuss Todd's fascination with the visual arts; the interconnectivity between art forms.. the power that art has to make a difference and the responsibility that comes with being an artist.
For more visit: www.ericsperspective.com
Guest Bio: Todd Cochran is an American pianist, composer, keyboardist, essayist and conceptual artist. Early in his career he was also professionally known as Bayeté. Cochran started his career as a teenager with saxophonist John Handy. Two years later he joined vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson’s Quartet, and made his jazz recording debut composing and performing on a benchmark album for Hutcherson, "Head On" (on Blue Note Records) that featured a nineteen-piece ensemble. The recording was critically hailed as cross-pollinating the evolving contemporary modal jazz, avant-garde sound of the 1970s. Cochran’s first solo project "Worlds Around the Sun" became a #1 jazz album and marked his entree into the jazz discussion. From the mid 1970s forward Todd has experimented with and incorporated synthesizers, electronic and mixed-media concepts in his creative projects while collaborating with a wide range of artists in the genres of jazz, art rock, pop, R&B, and twenty-first-century classical. Cochran's best-known jazz compositions include "At The Source" (Bobby Hutcherson), "Free Angela" (Bayeté Todd Cochran, Santana), "Eternal Worlds" Julian Priester, "My Pearl", "Geni-Geni" (Automatic Man), "Monte Carlo Nights" Grover Washington Jr., "Spanish Rose", "Back To Lovin' Again" (Freddie Hubbard), and "Secret Places" (Todd Cochran). He released two albums on Prestige Records in 1972 and 1973. He was keyboardist and lead singer of Automatic Man from 1976 - 1978. He was also a member of Fuse One, a coalition of jazz musicians who released two albums on CTI Records in 1980 and 1981.
About Eric's Perspective: A podcast series on African American art with Eric Hanks — African American art specialist, owner of the renowned M. Hanks Gallery and commissioner on the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; offers his perspective on African American art through in-depth conversations with fellow art enthusiasts where they discuss the past, present & future of African American art.
For more on Eric's Perspective, visit www.ericsperspective.com
SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/2vVJkDn
LISTEN ON:
Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2B6wB3U
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3j6QRmW
Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fNNgrY
iHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/2KtYGXv
Pandora: https://pdora.co/38pFWAm
Connect with us ONLINE:
Visit Eric's Perspective website: https://bit.ly/2ZQ41x1
Facebook: https://bit.ly/3jq5fXP
Instagram: https://bit.ly/39jFZxG
Twitter: https://bit.ly/2OMRx33
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