Those are my three subjects." Parham said he models most of his paintings based on black and white photos, including an image of Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King.

The Ringling highlights photographs by Danny Lyon and Roy DeCarava who captured different aspects of Black life in mid-20th ...

Choosing the tondo canvas for He (2024), an acrylic and gold leaf, Holmes is inserting his Black figure into the dead-white-male art historical canon. From round-shaped painting or sculptures ...