Joe Louis Light

**Joe Louis Light** (1934-2005) bụ ónyé America na-ese ihe si Dyersburg, Tennessee. Ọrụ ya na-elekwasị anya na transcendentalism, inweta nghọta ime mmụọ ma ọ bụ omume, na nguzozi na usoro nke eluigwe na ala.

## Ndụ
Joe Light tolitere n'ugbo dị na mpụga Dyersburg, Tennessee na nne ya, Virgie (Virgin) Mary, na nnà ya, Hiawatha. Ọ kewapụrụ onwé ya na nne na nna ya mgbe ọ bụ nwata nwoke ma gụchaa ruo na nke asatọ na Brewer High School. Ọ nọrọ n'ọrụ ugbo mgbè ọ na-eto eto ruo mgbe ọ debanyere aha na ndị agha na Machị 1951. Otú ọ dị, n'ọnwa Ọgọstụ nke otu afọ ahụ, a tọhapụrụ ya n'ihi na, dịka o kwuru, "Amagara m na ha ga-eziga m Korea, yabụ merụrụ m aka". N'oge na-adịghị anya mgbè ọ hapụsịrị ndị agha, a tụrụ ya mkpọrọ site na 1954-55 maka ịpụnara ụlọ ahịa nri. A tụkwara ya mkpọrọ n'ụlọ mkpọrọ Nashville site na 1960 na 1966-68. N'oge mbụ a màrà ya ikpe n'ụlọ mkpọrọ, Light zutere onye rabaị wee gbanwee gaa n'okpukpe ndị Juu. Ọ chetara na ịnụ Agba Ochie "bụ oge mbụ ihe onye nkwusa kwuru kwuru na ọ bụ ihe ezi uche dị na ya nye m".

Light nwụrụ n'abalị isii n'ọnwa Ọgọstụ n'afọ 2005, mgbè ọ dị afọ iri asaa ma lie ya na West Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery.

## Ọrụ
Joe Light malitere ime ihe osise mgbè ọ tọghatara na okpukpe ndị Juu. Ka ọ na-aga n'ebe ndịda etiti ọdịda anyanwụ na-achọ nwunye, ọ malitere ịdepụta ma na-edepụta ụkpụrụ omume na amaokwu Agba Ochie n'ebe ọha na eze. Ihe odide nyeere ya aka ịzụlite ụdị akara ya, nke o ji mée ka ụkpụrụ omume ya gbanwee. Ozugbo ọ lụrụ Rosie Lee Cotton wee biri n'ụlọ ya na Looney St. na Memphis na 1970, o jiri ụlọ ya dị ka isi ụlọ ọrụ ya màkà izipu ozi ya. O nwetara mkpali site na ihe odide ya n'afọ ndị 1960 wee malite ide iwu omume na omume ọma na shutters na siding nkè ụlọ ya.

### Ihe onwunwe
Ojiji nke ìhè chọtara driftwood si Mississippi màkà ụfọdụ n'ime ihe ọkpụkpụ ya. Ọ na-eji ihe ndị ọzọ a chọtara dị ka usoro T.V. ochie na hubcaps màkà ihe osise na nchịkọta ya. E mepụtara ọtụtụ n'ime ihe osise ya na ágbá ụlọ na plywood dị nro.

### Ihe Ndị Kpaliri ya
Okpukpe na okwukwe nke onwé ya bụ ihe kachasị mkpali Light. "N'ịhapụ Iso Ụzọ Kraịst Baptist nke ntorobịa ya, ọ zụlitere okwukwe onwe onye nke ajọ mbunobi agbụrụ ọ nwéré n'oge ikike ọbọdọ South, yana ebubo megide mmetụta nke Iso Ụzọ Ụzọ Kraịst na ndị a na-achị. "

### Ihe oyiyi na-apụta ugboro ugboro
Hobo na Birdman na-apụta dị ka ihe oyiyi ọdịnala na-apụghị ịhụ ányá n'ọrụ Light. Ha abụọ na-achọpụta mmalite ha na njem Light na ntọghata na nghọta ime mmụọ. Hobo na-anọchite anya ónyé na-enweghị nghọta na-achọ ihe ọ pụtara. Ìhè esewo nsụgharị anọ nke The Hobo, otu ojii, otu ọcha, otu ọbara ọbara, na otu odo, na-ezo aka na ihe nketa ya dị iche iche. O debere Hobo n'etiti okike, nke na-abụkarị n'akụkụ osimiri ma ọ bụ ugwu, nke na'anọchite anya enweghị nkwụsị nke Hobo ga-agafe iji nweta nghọta.

## Ihe ngosi
E dekọrọ ọrụ Light na ihe ngosi ndị a:

* N'èzí Mainstream: Folk Art in Our Time. 19 Mee- 12 Ọgọst 1988, High Museum of Art. Atlanta, GA
* Ashe: Improvisation na Recycling na African-American Visionary Art. 2 Feb.- 29 Mar. 1993. Diggs Gallery - Mahadum steeti Winston-Salem. Winston-Salem, NC
* *Ọhụụ na-akpali akpali nke* ndịda America: Ndị na-ese ihe na-akụzi onwe ha, 1940 ruo ugbu a. 23 Ọktoba 1993- 30 Jenụwarị 1994 New Orleans Museum of Art. New Orleans, LA
* Foto na uche m: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art site na nchịkọta nke Dr. Kurt Gitter na Alice Rae Yelen. 4 Feb.- 7 Apr 1996, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL.
* Wind in my Hair 12 Ọktọba 1996- 21 Apr 1997, American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD 
* Ụgbọ Noa: Ụmụ anụmanụ site na Southern Self-Taught Artists. 1 Ọgọst- 19 Septemba 1998. Ebe ngosi nka nke Mahadum Memphis. Memphis, TN.
* Ka ọ na-enwu gbaa: Self-taught Art site na T. Marshall Hahn Collection. 23 Jun. - 2 Sep. 2001. High Museum of Art. Atlanta, GA
* Ihe akaebe: Vernacular Art of the African-American South. 15 Sep- 19 Nov. 2001. Kalamazoo Institute of Art. Kalamazoo, MI.
* *Mkpughe*: Art si n'aka ndị Africa America South. 3 Jun 2017- 1 Apr. 2018. Ebe Ngosi Ihe Mgbe Ochie De Young San Francisco, CA
* *Akụkọ ihe mere eme jụrụ ịnwụ*. 22 Mee- 23 Septemba 2018. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY

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