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Winfred Rembert

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Winfred Rembert (1945 - 2021) was active/lived in Georgia.  Winfred Rembert is known for Carved figures and painting on leather.

WINFRED REMBERT (1945-2021)

Winfred Rembert’s striking compositions are made using concentrated dyes that are meticulously applied to large sheets of tanned leather. First, the artist carefully carves his figures and forms into the leather canvas using metal or wooden tools. Next, he uses a small brush to dab or paint indelible dye onto the indented surface. While the resulting scenes may appear cheerfully nostalgic on initial examination, the leather canvases are in fact powerful visual autobiographies that record Rembert’s arduous life as a black man in the segregated mid-twentieth-century American South, a life profoundly affected by racial violence and systemic injustice.

Rembert grew up in rural southwest Georgia under the care of a great-aunt, having been abandoned by his birth mother as an infant. The household’s finances were strained, and, from an early age, Rembert toiled alongside relatives in cotton or vegetable fields; a good day’s work might yield t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4166 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Winfred Rembert

   Winfred Rembert  Born:  1945 - Americus, Georgia
Died:   2021 - New Haven, Connecticut
Known for:  Carved figures and painting on leather

WINFRED REMBERT (1945-2021)

Winfred Rembert’s striking compositions are made using concentrated dyes that are meticulously applied to large sheets of tanned leather. First, the artist carefully carves his figures and forms into the leather canvas using metal or wooden tools. Next, he uses a small brush to dab or paint indelible dye onto the indented surface. While the resulting scenes may appear cheerfully nostalgic on initial examination, the leather canvases are in fact powerful visual autobiographies that record Rembert’s arduous life as a black man in the segregated mid-twentieth-century American South, a life profoundly affected by racial violence and systemic injustice.

Rembert grew up in rural southwest Georgia  ...  Displaying 750 of 4166 characters.
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