Book

Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists
The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art

Highlighting a dynamic new generation of black artists, Young, Gifted and Black surveys works drawn from the prestigious collection of Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi, longtime champions of emerging artists of African descent. Edited by Antwaun Sargent, the book features over 100 artworks—including painting, photography, sculpture, and performance—that explore collective memory, struggle, and self-representation. With texts by curators and artists offering diverse perspectives, Young, Gifted, and Black speaks broadly to notions of community and identity that, while rooted in the specific experience of blackness, capture how these artists are shaping the ways we think about representation, race, and the history of art.

Artists
Mark Bradford, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Julie Mehretu, Adam Pendleton, Pope.L, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Henry Taylor, Mickalene Thomas, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Sadie Barnette, Kevin Beasley, Jordan Casteel, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Bethany Collins, Noah Davis, Cy Gavin, Allison Janae Hamilton, Tomashi Jackson, Samuel Levi Jones, Deana Lawson, Eric N. Mack, Arcmanoro Niles, Jennifer Packer, Christina Quarles, Jacolby Satterwhite, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Sable Elyse Smith, Chanel Thomas, Stacy Lynn Waddell, D’Angelo Lovell Williams, Brenna Youngblood, and more.

Contributors
Antwaun Sargent, Graham C. Boettcher, Jessica Bell Brown, Connie H. Choi, Anthony Graham, Lauren Haynes, Jamillah James, Thomas J. Lax, Hallie Ringle, Adeze Wilford, Gordon Dearborn Wilkins, and Matt Wycoff, plus an interview with Bernard Lumpkin by Thelma Golden.

Published by D.A.P.

Available through some of our favorite independent and museum booksellers: McNally Jackson, Clic Bookstore, Elliott-Bay Book Company, Books on the Square, Powells Bookstore, Politics & Prose, Carnegie Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum, High Museum of Art.

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