Barkley L. Hendricks he insisted that his paintings, like his pictures, were not expressly political. Yet in his photographs “Hendricks could sometimes wear his politics on his sleeve,” Chris Wiley writes. See more of the late artist’s work:
Photographs © Barkley L. Hendricks / Courtesy of the Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks and Jack Shainman Gallery, New YorkThe artist Barkley L. Hendricks was known during his lifetime, though not nearly well enough, for his swaggering portrait paintings. During travels in Europe as a young man, Hendricks had been struck by the absence of Black folks like him in the works of the Old Masters he admired.
at Jack Shainman Gallery, in New York—makes the case that Hendricks was a photographer in his own right when he was so inclined.Hendricks had been toting around a camera since his adolescence in North Philadelphia. However, he gained admission to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for his skills as a draftsman.
Like the subjects of his paintings and his street pictures, Hendricks loved to peacock for the camera. In another self-portrait, from 1980, he wears a white dress shirt and woven tie underneath a V-neck sweater whose bright-red color matches his futuristic, wraparound sunglasses. The ensemble is part prep school and part P-Funk. A wistful self-portrait from the same year finds Hendricks in his home studio, wearing a white shirt and snappy black fedora, his right hand resting on his chest.
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