Los Angeles–based artist Timothy Washington (b. 1946) has crafted a
visionary display of mixed-media works in his Leimert Park residence
for over fifty years. A prominent figure during the Black Arts
Movement—a key moment in the 1960s and 1970s when African American
artists and writers collectively celebrated black culture—
Washington has been a pioneer of socio-politically charged work ever
since, exhibiting both locally and nationally with renowned fellow
artists, such as Charles White and David Hammons. In the late 1970s,
after years of creating his celebrated dry point drawings and carved
wooden sculptures, he sought to innovate his use of materials and
techniques and shifted to producing futuristic assemblage sculptures,
which he continues to make today. To create them, Washington dips
cotton in white glue, then applies it to shaped wire-hanger armatures,
while also embedding myriad objects that he finds in his neighborhood
or collects through family and friends.
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California African American Museum
600 State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, 90037, CA, United States