The Four Little Girls in 1963

Acrylic previously painted cut canvases

24 x 24

$4000

I'm Greg Mills and as an Artist, Art Curator and Art Educator in the Harlem community since the '70's I envision the the cultural saying of the West Harlem moniker " Where Art Lives" as an ongoing story historical linen of the cultural and intellectual landscape of the Harlem Renaissance as more painted tiles to place in the untold stories of our communities Also as a painter, I particularly admire the writings and a quote by the late Author (Toni Morrison 1931-2019) often said I. More ways than one that: " Art takes us and makes take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances." Today, I create visual as a journey art from the vestiges of historical vestiges now people, places and incidents in timeline contlintiumnn. It's living memoir as where art lives so do the witness. I've sought to create in a collage art perspective as an expanding connection to Romare Bearden and Deborah Roberts, yet without the utilization of photography in the artworks itself. This particular art work is. I was raised in the segregated South. This historical era made an enormous cultural shock when I became a youth on into adulthood as I was becoming an artist. I experienced this in the military. Today my art works speak to uplifting the Race of African Americans.