Willie Birch

Willie Birch bụ onye omenkà anya America nke na-arụ ọrụ n'ụdị iche iche ịse, ọgụ na ihe ọkpụkpụ.  Akwụkwọ akụkọ Birch na New Orleans, ma bi ugbu a ma na-arụ ọrụ na New Orleans.  Ọ gụchara BA na Mahadum Southern dị na New Orleans, wee nweta saịtị MFA na Maryland Institute College of Art na Baltimore, Maryland .

 Ọrụ 
Birch biri na New York mgbe ọ akwụkwọ akwụkwọ, ebe ọ bịara mara maka papier-mâché sculptures.  [1] Mgbe ọ nọ na New York, n'ime afọ 1978 na 1979, ọ bụ nke Cultural Council Artists Project, nke Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) akwụkwọ.  N'ịtụle ihe ngosi na Exit Art na New York City, Roberta Smith ji ọrụ 1990 ya na New York Times dị ka "ihe ọrụ a na-akọ na-eji nnukwu ihe ngosi anya."  [2] Birch la mgbanaka na New Orleans na 1994, na 1997 ọ na-ede akụkọ ọrụ na usoro ihe osise nke ndị mmadụ na mpaghara ya.  Birch chepụtara ahụ dị ka aza ihe oyiyi stereotypical nke ndị Africa-America nke ọ na-ama na French Quarter : " ihi na-enye akwụkwọ mmado, ihe oyiyi na ihe, na ndị na-eme egwuregwu n'okporo ámá na-eji.  buffoonery ihe odide ndị na-adịghị mma."  [3] Birch ndị na ndị ọzọ nke obodo ahụ dị nnọọ iche, na-emechi, "Ihe oyiyi abụọ a na-egosi onwe ya nke New Orleans nyere m nhọrọ iji anya nke uche hụ otu ọrụ nke na-ekwu maka echiche nke esemokwu.  na otú anyị dị ka ụmụ mmadụ si akara na-ahụ., na-adịgide adịgide, na-ịmụkwa ndị mmadụ dị ka 'ndị ọzọ,' na ihe nke ahụ na-ahụ mmadụ na agbanwe agbanwe."  [4] Ebi pụtara monotypes na Tamarind Institute.

Birch akụkọ ọrụ na oji na ọcha ka 2000 nchebe.  [1] Eserese ndị nwera nnukwu ọnụ ọgụgụ ndị a na-achọta na Prospect.1 na 2008, ihe ngosi triennial nke nka oge a na New Orleans nke Prospect New Orleans haziri.  Ọ na-arụkarị ọrụ na unyi na acrylic na akwụkwọ na ihe oyiyi ya na-agụụ nke ndụ kwa ụbọchị na New Orleans yana ihe dị iche iche nke omenala obodo, akpọ brass bands, second lines, and musicers such as Trombone Shorty .  Birch bụ otu n'ime ndị na-ese ihe isii sere na " Afọ iri gara " na New Orleans Museum of Art na emume nke afọ iri nke Hurricane Katrina na 2015. Ọrụ ya onyonyo nke ndị weghaara akwụkwọ ya mgbe e mechiri obodo  mgbe oke mmiri mmiri ahụ ahụ, yana nkedo nke mkpọ ahụ́ crawfish, ụlọ apịtị nke crawfish wuru bụ oké ifufe ahụ bupụrụ n'ogige ya.

 Ihe ngosi 
E sere ọrụ Birch n'ofe US, ndị Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art;  McKinney Avenue Contemporary Museum na Dallas;  Ndị Delaware maka Arts Contemporary, Wilmington, DE;  na Ebe Ndịda Ebe Ọwụwa mkpa maka Art Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC;  na Ogige Ọkpụkpụ, New York City.

 obibi 
Birch abụwo onye na-ese ihe na ebe obibi na RedLine Milwaukee;  Ogige New Orleans maka nka nka;  na Ecole superieure des beaux-arts de Nantes, France;  New Orleans Jazz na Heritage Foundation;  Ndị ọrụ Tamarind, Albuquerque, NM;  Henry Street Settlement, New York;  na The Studio Museum na Harlem, NY.

 Onyinye na mkpakọrịta 
Birch arọ dị ka James Baldwin Fellow maka United States Artists, na ọ natawo Life Time Achievement Award site na National Conference of Artists (NCA).  Birch enwetala sitere na The Pollock Krasner Foundation, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, Cue Art Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, New York State Council on Arts, na National Endowment for Arts.  Ọ natala ihe nrite Gọvanọ site na steeti Louisiana na nri onye isi obodo Arts site na New Orleans.

 Nchịkọta 
Ụbọchị Birch ọnụ n'ọtụtụ nchịkọta, Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN;  Ndị Delaware maka Arts Contemporary, Wilmington, DE;  Ọgwụ Ọgwụ Harlem, New York, NY;  Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL;  Ndị ihe ngosi nka nke obodo ukwu, New York, NY;  Ndị ọrụ Microsoft, Seattle, WA;  Ndị ọrụ Mobil, Fairfax, VA;  Ndị eze ihe ngosi nka nke New Orleans, New Orleans, LA;  Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA;  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA;  Ozi ọrụ Prudential, Newark, NJ;  na ọtụtụ mkpokọta.

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