Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson: Sankofa
Sep 6 – Oct 29, 2022
ACA Galleries
529 West 20th Street
5th Floor
New York, New York 10011
ACA Galleries is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of work by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson on view from September 7 through October 29, 2022. Aminah Robinson, born in Columbus, Ohio, was an African American artist, activist and cultural historian of epic Black migrations. She was an instrument of memory; gathering stories, totems and fragments of the past. Her belief in the African concept of Sankofa, a concept from the Akan tribe in Ghana which means, “it is not taboo to fetch what is at risk of being left behind” informs her work.
Using both traditional and unconventional media and processes to create drawings, watercolors, button-beaded books and dolls, illustrated texts and journals, “hogmawg” sculpture and rag paintings, Robinson’s work celebrates challenges and triumphs she experienced growing up Black and female during the Civil Rights Era in the Midwest, African American ancestral history from Africa through the Middle Passage to enslavement and emancipation in the American South, the Great Migration of African Americans north, and her travels to Africa, the Middle East, and South America.
When Robinson died, she left her estate to the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. The Museum has established an artist residency in her home and organized a major exhibition and monograph, Raggin’ On: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson’s House and Journals (July 10, 2020-January 3, 2021).
©2022 Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson
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