TK Smith
TK Smith is a Philadelphia-based curator, writer, and cultural historian. His writing has been published in Art in America, the Monument Lab Bulletin, and ART PAPERS, where he is a contributing editor.
I write this reflection in a period of grief, and it is grief that necessitates the urgency of my words. I have maintained that abstraction is an essential tool of Black expression. The abstraction of language offers us truer ways to speak our lives as we live them.
June 2022Art Books
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore’s Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist’s Reckoning with the South
As a historian of the American South, Gilmore is positioned to offer a historical analysis of Bearden’s life within a larger American context, expanding upon the work previously done by art historians, curators, and Bearden himself. A promising transdisciplinary endeavor, it fails to complicate what is widely known of the artist’s life.
