Winfred Rembert: Looking for Rembert

With the success of our Winfred Rembert presentation at the Independent 20th Century, we would like to share the exhibition with our local audience.

“Winfred Rembert’s tooled-leather ‘paintings’ command whatever space they inhabit. Carving art into strips of leather, a skill he learned while incarcerated, he memorialized scenes from his life in Jim Crow America, from surviving a lynching, to picking cotton and breaking rocks in a prison line. The self-taught artist had a remarkable eye for color and pattern, and a lingering sorrow that sustains in the work’s quiet intensity.”
Tessa Solomon, ARTnews