Young Ida B. Wells looks to the future by Joanna Pinsky

Framed painting, acrylic on gatorboard, 15 x 10.75", 2022

Value: $900; Opening Bid: $400; Buy Now: $1000

Artist Bio:

Joanna Pinsky, co- founder and Artistic Director of Art Encounter, is a painter whose practice has centered on shape and color. She creates 2-D shaped works, rectangular works on paper and small works on board. Recent subjects include architectural fragments, nature and climate change and heroes. She exhibits her work frequently in the Chicago area including solo shows at the Nancy Lurie Gallery, Perimeter Gallery, Space 900 gallery, Oakton Community College's Koehnline Museum and the Evanston Art Center. Her works have been shown in Santa Fe, NM, New York City, Japan, and Germany. Pinsky's works are in the collections of Northwestern University Mathematics Dept., The Illinois State Museum, and many private and corporate collections. www.joannapinsky.com

About This Piece:

"Ida B. Wells (1861-1931) was an investigative journalist, educator and advocate for civil rights and women's rights. After writing about a lynching in her town, Memphis, TN, the black newspaper, she co-owned was destroyed. Wells moved to Chicago where she wrote extensively on lynching throughout the South, along with articles on racism and misogyny, founded a black suffragette group, was a founder of the N.A.A.C. P. and began a settlement house for black migrants from the South. In my painting, Wells is young, and looking to the future with concern. I have layered colors over colors and incised into them to create textures and vary the surface. The warm colors over the cool colors light up her face. The shifting background colors add intensity to the image."