Armando Alleyne (B. 1959) - Mary Lou Williams Outsider Portrait, Signed (Mixed Media on Canvas)

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Armando Alleyne (b. 1959) - Mary Lou Williams Outsider Portrait, Signed (2008, Mixed Media on Canvas). Outsider portrait of jazz … Read more Armando Alleyne (b. 1959) - Mary Lou Williams Outsider Portrait, Signed (2008, Mixed Media on Canvas).  Outsider portrait of jazz singer Mary Lou Williams against an expressionist landscape.  The piece is made up of acrylic and fabric pieces.  Signed and dated in the lower quadrant.  Painted silver frame with a ball pattern along the edge.  In good condition with wear consistent with age.

Size:  20.25 x 26 in

Armando Alleyne (b. 1959, New York) grew up in Lower Manhattan and graduated from The City College of New York with a B.A. in Education and Fine Arts, in 1983. Throughout the decades, Alleyne's work has been shown at Sage Center Harlem, Gallery M, Chi Chiz, the Bronx River Gallery, Clover's Fine Art Gallery, Metropolitan Community Church, Sarah Lawrence College, the Jazz Gallery and Black Lawyers Association, among others. He has illustrated numerous publications including Blackheart 2: The Prison Issue—A Journal of Writing and Graphics by Black Gay Men (1984), Black Music, Black Poetry: Blues and Jazz's Impact on African American Versification (Gordon E. Thompson, 2014), Kwanzaa in the Gay and Lesbian Family (Imani Rashid, 2011) and Saving the World from Self–Or Should I Say Selfishness (Philip Regman, 2010). He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY (Latinx Project). See less