WAM Nights: Gallery Talk with Sharif Bey
Schedule
Fri, 05 May, 2023 at 06:30 pm
Location
Wichita Art Museum | Wichita, KS
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As both an artist and professor at Syracuse University, Sharif Bey combines his intellectual curiosity, scholarly research, and love of physically making art to create work that is not simply beautiful but layered with history, cultural critique, and knowledge of biology and geology.Inspired by modernism, functional pottery, Oceanic, African art, and Art of the African diaspora, Bey’s ceramic/glass/mix-media works investigate the cultural and political significance of adornment and the symbolic and formal properties of archetypal motifs, while questioning how the meaning of icons and function transform across cultures and time.
WAM’s new acquisition of Bey's "Nestle III" is now on view in the exhibition "Heroes, Legends, and Legacies." The work is layered with complex ideas about power, history, and the Black experience. At nearly three feet by three feet, "Nestle III" is a dramatically oversized necklace made from glowing gold and purple glass beads, each slightly curved and resembling teeth, claws, or feathers.
About WAM Nights: We’re open late on Fridays until 9 pm! Get your weekend started with after-hours access to the galleries, dinner at 1400 by Elderslie or shopping in the Museum Store. WAM Nights will include programs with artists, musicians, and performers–don’t miss your chance to see the art at WAM in a new way!
General admission to WAM Nights and to the galleries is free.
PICTURED ABOVE: Sharif Bey, "Nestle III" (detail), 2021. Glass and mixed media, 33 x 33 x 3 inches. Wichita Art Museum, Museum purchase, F. Price Cossman Memorial Trust, INTRUST Bank, Trustee
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Where is it happening?
Wichita Art Museum, 1400 W Museum Blvd, Wichita, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
