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- Until his death in 1998 from AIDS-related pneumonia, Ronald Lockett was the youngest noteworthy southern African American visual artist and one of the few in his tradition to possess no personal memories of the civil rights movement or the coarsely segregated social climate that preceded it.
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Ronald Lockett (1965–1998) was an American visual artist, combining painting with three dimensional objects. “Lockett's primary artistic mentor” was the painter Thornton Dial, his cousin. [1]
Ronald Lockett (1965–1998) was the youngest member of the Birmingham-Bessemer School, a group of black male artists living in greater Birmingham, Alabama, from the period after the Civil Rights Movement through today.
Ronald Lockett’s (b. 1965, Bessemer, Alabama; d.1998, Bessemer, Alabama) body of work is defined by cycles of rebirth. Though Lockett only lived to be thirty-three, his short career yielded a distinct visual language, imbued with symbols of majesty and masculinity, pop culture and found materials reflective of his immediate surroundings.
Ronald Lockett (1965–1998) was the youngest member of the Birmingham-Bessemer School, a group of black male artists living in greater Birmingham, Alabama, from the period after the Civil Rights Movement through today.
Oct 9, 2016 · The art of Ronald Lockett (American, 1965–1998) is both deeply connected to his life in the American South and transcendently resonant with broader human experience. In visually arresting works assembled from found materials, Lockett used a symbolic cast of animal avatars to address themes of struggle, survival, and injustice that are ...
Mar 23, 2023 · “Sarah Lockett’s Roses” (1997) by Ronald Lockett, who was mentored by Dial, his cousin, pays homage to his great-grandmother with flowers cut into painted tin tiles, a bouquet of salvaged...
Ronald Lockett (1965-1998) was slight of build and sentient to the point of grace. He grew up in the wilds of post-industrial Bessemer, Alabama where he lived with his mother until her death and remained in his childhood home until his own untimely demise, the result of AIDS-related illness.
