The work of Melverue Abraham is vibrant, thickly textured, and often nostalgic. The subject of these paintings, however, harken to darker memories.
Midnight Terrors shows the brutal lynching of two African-American men at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK is illuminated in white robes and hoods that stand out against the night sky. One clan member carries a Confederate flag, while an American flag stands off the side. The hands of the clansmen are covered and dripping with the blood of the two victims- one lying on the ground, the other still hanging from the tree. The flaming torches shed light on the scene and the rage. The ghost of an African American Union soldier looks upon the scene from the right corner.
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