Robert Colescott: Recent Paintings Is A Sumptuous Display Of Politically Charged Narrative.
By Margaret Regan
OUT OF AFRICA metaphorically, and out of Italy literally,
Robert Colescott s paintings are come home at last to Tucson. Now mounted in a sumptuous exhibition at the University of Arizona
Museum of Art,
Robert Colescott: Recent Paintings first
went up at the Venice Biennale a year and a half ago. The work
of UA professor emeritus Colescott, these extravagantly colored,
politically charged narrative paintings were the U.S. entry in
the 1997 international art fair. Colescott was the first American
painter since Jasper Johns in 1988 to be thus honored, and the