Black Magic (It's Fantastic)

Artist André Leon Gray American, born 1969

Date2005

MediumAcrylic, rhinestones, basketball, braided synthetic hair, street sweeper brush, shoe laces, headband, miniature clay pots, wood, and cowrie shells on wood ironing board

Dimensions67 x 31 x 9 1/2 in. (170.2 x 78.7 x 24.1 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Friends of African and African American Art, and with additional funds provided by North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company

Object number2011.3

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated Raleigh, NC, 2005; collection of the artist, Raleigh; on loan to NCMA, 2010–2011; sold to NCMA, 2011.
Published ReferencesMichele Natale, "Mixed media show targets mixed messages," Raleigh News & Observer (December 23, 2007)

Emily Stamey, To the Hoop (exhibition catalogue) (Greensboro, NC: Weatherspoon Art Museum, 2020), discussed 38, illus. (color) 39 and (color detail) 78.
Exhibition HistoryBrooklyn, NY, DUMBO General Store and Gallery, Eye Gumbo, 2005.

Rocky Mount, NC, Marty Lane Gallery, The Arts Center at the Imperial Centre, "Elements: An Invitational Exhibition of Assemblage/Collage Works), 2006.

Raleigh, NC, Litmus Gallery, "Versus," 2007.

Raleigh, NC, Peace College, "Circumventing the Pigment (remix)," 2007.

Rocky Mount, NC, Mims Gallery, North Carolina Wesleyan College, "eye gumbo: revisited," 2008.

Greensboro, NC, Weatherspoon Art Museum, “To the Hoop: Basketball and Contemporary Art,” February 1–June 7, 2020, cat. p. 38–39, illus. (color) 39 and (color detail) 78.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–May 1, 2023. Object Rights Statement

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