Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight
Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight is the first museum catalogue to explore the dynamic, innovative work of the Black Arts Movement abstract painter Joe Overstreet (1933–2019). Illustrated with all new photography of the installation at the Menil, this groundbreaking survey features scholarly essays, a detailed chronology, an overview of the artist’s connection to the de Menils, and first-hand accounts of Overstreet’s life and career. The book focuses primarily on three series: the shaped canvas constructions of the 1960s; the colorful 1970s Flight Pattern series, hung with ropes from the floor, walls, and ceilings; and the immense abstract paintings he made after a trip to Senegal in 1992.
About the Authors:
Natalie Dupêcher is the associate curator of modern art at the Menil Collection
Darby English is the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
Richard Hylton is Lecturer in Contemporary Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Abbe Schriber is Assistant Professor of Art History and African American Studies, University of South Carolina
Rebecca Rabinow is Director of the Menil Collection
Ishmael Reed is a poet, novelist, playwright, and lyricist
Corrine Jennings is an art historian and cofounder of Kenkeleba House
Jacqueline Siegel is Research Assistant, Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection
