Vero museum puts on brave face Feb 18, 2008
In Benny Andrews' "Beholder" (1963 oil and collage on canvas), a solitary figure, appearing emaciated, holds onto a single orange, imparting a sense of hunger. Milton Avery's "Self-Portrait" (1941 oil on canvas) reveals not only the image of the painter, but his environment as well. (Florida Today)
Black History Month Activities Abound in New Jersey Feb 5, 2008
Among the works included in this exhibition are paintings by Frank Bowling, Alma Thomas, Hale Woodruff, Benny Andrews, Rex Goreleigh, and Hughie Lee-Smith; prints by Jacob Lawrence and Emma Amos; collages by Romare Bearden; photographs by Gordon Parks, Milton J. Hinton and Chuck Stewart; and sculpture by Mel Edwards and Selma Hortense Burke. For more information, visit. (PR Newswire)
In Its 19th Season, the National Black Arts Festival Invites Audiences to Uncover Their Roots May 10, 2007
Original artworks from such artists as Romare Bearden, Robert S. Duncanson, Hale Woodruff, Benny Andrews, Carrie Mae Weems and Amalia Amaki, will be available for collectors to purchase. embrace opens at 7:30 pm, at Mason Murer Fine Art (199 Armour Drive, Atlanta, GA). (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Benny Andrews, a benefit for Darfur Emergency Fund Feb 26, 2007
BENNY ANDREWS WAS the perfect choice to illustrate a children's book on the life of congressman John Lewis ... Benny Andrews' "Field Workers" (above), "Preaching to the Chickens" (below) and other works are on display at Mason Murer Gallery Feb. 22 to help raise money for the Darfur Emergency Relief Fund. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Tribute to lawmaker, artist aids Darfur relief Feb 3, 2007
and the artwork of Benny Andrews will help hundreds of thousands of people a world away ... "Feeding the Chickens" by Benny Andrews depicts John Lewis' boyhood as a sharecropper's son. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Author, artist chronicle life of civil rights leader Jan 4, 2007
News,'and other Benny Andrews paintings from 'The John Lewis Series,' are headed to Atlanta ... At the heart of both projects is Benny Andrews, one of 10 children born to sharecropper parents in Madison, who went on to acclaim as a New York-based artist. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
