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A Gallery Featuring Only Artists of Color Feels Like Change “Shattered Glass” at Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles has visitors returning, and artists bonding. From left, works by the self-taught artist Fulton Leroy Washington (a.k.a. Mr. Wash): “Emancipation Proclamation,” 2014; “Shattered Dreams,” 2020; “Targeted - Insurrection,” 2021, at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles. The artist learned to paint while he was incarcerated.Credit.Joshua White May 11, 2021 LOS ANGELES People have come back again and again. They bring family members and friends. It isn’t often that a gallery show engenders such strong responses. But this one feels different, because every face in every painting belongs to a person of color. Every piece of art was created by a person of color. And the exhibition was organized by two young people of color curating their first major show. ....