The Art Newspaper profiles the work of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, an organization that has promoted the work of African-American artists of the South working beyond the traditional gallery system, and which will take over the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco for a major exhibition this year.  “We’ve spent a lot of time trying to illustrate to people that a great Gee’s Bend quilt or a Thornton Dial sculpture or a Lonnie Holley can stand next to any contemporary work,†says board member Michael Sellman.
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