Joe Overstreet

Joe Wesley Overstreet (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Silimiin goli June biɛɣ'pishi dali yuuni 1933 ka daa kpi Silimiin goli June dabaa anahi dali yuuni 2019) daa nyɛla  African-American nuchee ni baŋda ŋun tuma jɛndi pɛnta pɛnta ka yina painter Mississippi  amaa ka daa leei be New York City tumdi tuma.

Exhibitions
Group exhibitions 

 2017: Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. Tate Modern, London. Traveled to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Brooklyn Museum in 2018.
 2015: The EY Exhibit: The World Goes Pop. Tate Modern, London.
 2011: Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. 
 2005: Water. Bridgetown Embassy, Barbados. Sponsored by the Art in Embassies Program of the U.S. Department of State.
 1992-3: A/CROSS CURRENTS: Synthesis in African American Abstract Painting. U.S. Representation: Dakar Biennale, Senegal; IFAN Museum, and National Center for Art; French Cultural Center, Libreville, Gabon; GRAFOLIE Festival, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
 1992.4: DREAM SINGERS, STORYTELLERS: An African-American Presence. New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, and venues in Japan: Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Otani Memorial Art Museum.
 1989: The Blues Aesthetic. Washington Project for the Arts; Circulating exhibition.
 1986: U.S. Art Census, 1986: Contemporary Afro-American Artists. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

 Solo exhibitions 

 2019: Joe Overstreet, Selected Works: 1975-1982. Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY.
 2018: Joe Overstreet, Innovation of Flight: Paintings 1967-1972. Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY.
 2008: The Storyville Series. City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA.
 2003: Meridian Fields.  Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York, NY.
 1996: (Re) Call and Response. Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY.
 1996: Joe Overstreet: Works from 1957 to 1993. New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ.
 1965: Hugo Gallery, New York, NY.
 1955: Vesuvio Cafe, San Francisco, CA.

 Kundivihira 

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 External links 

 The New Jemima (1964) 
 Strange Fruit (1965)
 Justice, Faith, Hope and Peace (1968)
 The Basket Weavers (2003)
 Photo shoot with Joe Overstreet


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Category:African-American artists
Category:Abstract expressionist artists
Category:Painters from New York City
Category:Artists from Mississippi
Category:1933 births
Category:2019 deaths
Category:People from Newton County, Mississippi
Category:20th-century African-American artists
Category:21st-century African-American artists