Sarasota News Leader
January 24, 2014
Page 107
YOUTH VIOLENCE TO BE FOCUS OF NORTH SARASOTA LIBRARY EXHIBIT
Kin Killin' Kin, a series created by Ohio artist James Pate, will be featured at the North
Sarasota Library from Jan. 28 through Feb.
23, the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota
County has announced.
for his self-described "Techno-Cubism" style.
In an article on the website Neighborhood
Scribe, La Risa Lynch writes that Pate uses
"stark charcoal drawings" in a "storyboard
format."
Pate's work "addresses one of the most critical social ills of our time — youth violence,"
a flyer points out. His "powerful images are
a visual call to action to find solutions and
discuss positive alternatives toward negative
behavior," it adds.
An article by Deborah Bayliss on The Chicago
Citizen website says Pate "hopes that troubled youth, young adults, drug traffickers
and gang members who feel hopeless will
see the provocative images such as Turn of
Endearment, a brightly colored oil painting
The series of images reflects Pate's "deep that depicts a young man gradually turning
love for the African American community and away from a life of crime, and will be inspired
great concern for the epidemic of youth vio- to do the same thing."
lence plaguing it," the flyer continues.
Bayliss wrote about Kin Killin' Kin when it
"If I can save one young brother, these 10 was on exhibit last fall at the DuSable Museum
years of creating this series will not have been of African History in Chicago.
in vain," Pate says in the flyer.
The North Sarasota Library is located at 2801
Pate is considered to be one of the most Newtown Blvd. in Sarasota. For more inforimportant African American artists in the mation, visit the Arts and Cultural Alliance
United States, the flyer points out. He is known website.
RICH TRADITION OF ANCIENT ART TO BE SHOWCASED AT SELBY GARDENS
Sumi-e, an Asian art form that is nearly 2,000
years old, will be the focus of an exhibition
and sale in the historic Selby House at Selby
Gardens beginning Jan. 29, The Gardens has
announced.
the release continues, as the artists have
developed their talents by studying Chinese,
Japanese, Korean and contemporary styles.
The exhibit will be produced by the Sarasota
Chapter of the Sumi-e Society of America,
"which serves as a cultural bridge between
Eastern and Western art and also seeks
to foster and encourage the study and the
appreciation of Oriental Brush Painting," the
release explains.
"Closely related to the ancient art of Chinese
calligraphy, the brush strokes used to create
Sumi-e paintings are based on the strokes
used to produce the beautiful characters of
Chinese writing," a news release says. "The
exhibition will include work representing a For more information about the exhibit, visit
variety of Oriental Brush Painting 'schools,'" the Selby Gardens website.
