Winfred Rembert: Memory is Alive
September 10 - October 22, 2022
Lillian Rembert and Vivian Ducat joined James Barron on Zoom to discuss the life and work of Winfred Rembert. Nine minute short film (beginning at 1:00:00) courtesy of Vivian Ducat.
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“I carried this all my life, all of these things that happened to me... I didn’t realize that by keeping my story inside so long, it would change my life and make me sick.”
Winfred Rembert, Chasing Me to My Grave
At age 51, Rembert began carving his memories-including his childhood in the Jim Crow South and his imprisonment following a Civil Rights protest- into both vibrant and painful paintings on leather. Rembert was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2022 for his memoir Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South. Rembert’s work has been subject to a wave of critical interest, and recent museum acquisitions include the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin.
We wish to express our gratitude to the anonymous lenders to this exhibition.