Occupation: Sculptor, Painter Media: Wood, Stone, Oil, Watercolor. Born Lake City, South Carolina, December 11, 1930.
Education Self-taught. studies at Brooklyn Museum Art Sch with Isaac Soyer. printmaking workshop, studies with Bob Blackburn, Robert DeLamonica & Krishna Reddy.
Teaching Positions Instr etching, Bob Blackburns Printmaking Workshop.
Business and Professional Positions Former director, Fulton Art Fair, Brooklyn, New York.
Commissioned Works Earl Graves Publ Co; Prospect Park Alliance; Strivers Center Walk of Fame; Ezra Jack Keats Found; mural, Kings Co Hosp Center, 2001; portrait, Yale Univ Divinity Sch, 2003; Bronze awards for Woodie King's New Federal Theatre.
Public Works Ghana Nat Mus, Accra; Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, Guyana Statehouse; Columbia Mus, South Carolina; Medgar Evers Coll; Pvt collections, Randy Weston, Oprah Winfrey, George C Wolfe, David Dinkins, Willie Randolph, Hon John Lewis, Elombe Brath & Harry Belefonte.
Exhibitions Resurrection, Studio Mus, New York, 71; Millenium, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, 73; Selections 73, Brooklyn Museum, 74; 14 Black Artists, Pratt Inst Gallery, Brooklyn, 76; Migrations, Museo De Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia, S America, 76 & Caracas, Venezuela, 77; Columbia Mus of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, 89; Herbert F Johnson Art Museum, Ithaca, New York, 2000; Hampton Mus, Hampton, Virginia, 2002; St Joseph's Col, Brooklyn, New York, 2003; Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2004.
Bibliography Peter Bailey (author), Ten Black artists depict Christ, Ebony Mag, 4/71; Diane Weathers (author), Black artists taking care of business, New York Times, 8/19/73; Elton Fax (author), Black Artists of the New Generation, Dodd/Mead & Co, 77.
Publications Illusr, African Heritage Cookbook, Macmillan, 71; The Adventures of Tony David & Marc, Exposition Press, 76; America Visions Mag, 8-9/94; Sculpture Mag, 2/98; Current Biography, 3/2003.
Honors and Awards Award for Excellence in Design, New York City Arts Comn.
Memberships Nat Conf Artists; Fulton Art Fair; Dorsey Art Committee.
Dealers Dorsey's Gallery 553 Rogers Ave Brooklyn New York 11225.
