Joe Overstreet

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Taking Flight

By Natalie Dupêcher

Brief Description

The first survey of Joe Overstreet, abstract painter of the Black Arts Movement and forecaster of Afrofuturism This groundbreaking survey of abstract paintings by Joe Overstreet (1933–2019) recognises his energising presence in the Black Arts Movement and situates his socially engaged and spatially challenging work within... Read More

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Joe Overstreet

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The first survey of Joe Overstreet, abstract painter of the Black Arts Movement and forecaster of Afrofuturism

Description

The first survey of Joe Overstreet, abstract painter of the Black Arts Movement and forecaster of Afrofuturism

This groundbreaking survey of abstract paintings by Joe Overstreet (1933–2019) recognises his energising presence in the Black Arts Movement and situates his socially engaged and spatially challenging work within today's crucial redefinition of the modernist canon.

Overstreet's Flight Patterns series, created from 1969 to 1973, is at the centre of this book. These intensely coloured acrylic-on-canvas works are hung with ropes tethering them to the ceiling, floor, walls—a vital exploration of geometries and free-form installation. In addition, the book includes new studies of Overstreet's shaped canvas constructions of the 1960s and his mammoth Facing the Door of No Return works, quickly painted in a rush of inspiration after his 1992 trip to Senegal and encounter with the embarkation point of Africans shipped for enslavement in the New World.

Essays on Overstreet's shaped canvases, Flight Patterns, and the Facing the Door of No Return paintings accompany full-colour photographs of the works, and a detailed chronology places Overstreet's career in its time.

Distributed for the Menil Collection

Exhibition Schedule:

The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
(January 24–July 13, 2025)

Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
(Fall 2025–Winter 2026)

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300282061

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 July 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 85 color illus.

Contributors:

Contributions by Darby English
With Richard Hylton
With Rebecca Rabinow
With Abbe Schriber
With Darby English
With Ishmael Reed
Contributions by Richard Hylton
Contributions by Jacqueline Siegel
Contributions by Corrine Jennings
Contributions by Rebecca Rabinow
Contributions by Ishmael Reed
Contributions by Abbe Schriber

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 248.0mm

Height: 292.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 184

Collections

Arts & Culture Natalie Dupêcher Non-Fiction

About the Author

Natalie Dupêcher is associate curator of modern art for the Menil Collection, Houston, TX. Darby English is Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. Richard Hylton is lecturer in contemporary art at SOAS, University of London. Rebecca Rabinow is director, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX. Abbe Schriber is assistant professor of art history, University of South Carolina, Columbia.