Crying Mother
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- Artist:
- Marc Gaston
- Technique:
- Oil On Canvas
- Year:
- 1986
- Width:
- 10
- Height:
- 40
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About artist
Marc Gaston
Marc-Antoine Gaston, earned an MFA at Rutgers University in 1987, where he studied with Martha and Melvin Edwards. His work encompasses many of the political issues surrounding Haiti and the United States. It combines a realist academic style with surrealist abstraction. He has held exhibitions at Montclair State College, New Jersey, the Black & White In Color Gallery in the Bronx and Walter Hall Gallery at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Gaston is currently a painting instructor at Union Township Adult School in New Jersey.
About the work
Painting Description:
This painting tells a tale of the pain and suffering of generations of black women. Black mothers are never at peace when their sons and daughters are out on the streets. Too often they wind up burying their children as a result of the racial inequality that people of color continue to endure in this society.