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Lorenzo Pace (born September 29, 1943 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American artist best known for his African Burial Ground Memorial sculpture in New York City, Triumph of the Human Spirit.[1]
Biography
[edit]Pace was born in Alabama, but raised in Chicago. After being inspired to become an artist he voyaged to Paris for a year to soak in the artistic culture. Upon returning he spent one year studying art at the University of Illinois at Chicago and then left for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from where he went on to get both his BFA and MFA degrees. He then went to Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois to obtain his Doctorate. After taking his Doctorate he boomeranged back to the University of Illinois at Chicago to teach and then left for New York City where he took roots in Harlem joining the African-American arts community there.[2] Pace has also taught at Medgar Evers College and is the former director of the Montclair State art galleries, a position he was first appointed to in 1988.
In 2000 his work, Triumph of the Human Spirit, was chosen from some 400 competition entries by New York City's Percent for Art to be the centerpiece of Foley Square in Lower Manhattan and as a memorial to the nearby rediscovered African Burial Ground. The work is a 50 ft high 300 ton black granite abstract monument. The top level crown is based on the Chiwara female antelope forms found in the Bambaran art of the Bamana people of Mali, West Africa. The middle level long form represents the Middle Passage slaves endured in ships as they made a forced crossing of the Atlantic. Finally the bottom level base in a ringed fountain. symbolizing the ocean; while at the front Pace's forefather Steve Pace's slave lock, a family heirloom is embedded into the work.[3]
Pace has exhibited at the National Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, as well as galleries in China, Brazil, Senegal, Suriname, Peru, and France.[4]
Pace is also the author of Jalani and the Lock a best selling children's book which tells the story behind his ancestor's captive restraint which became a familial keepsake.[5]
Currently Pace is a professor of art at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Lorenzo Pace's Biography". The HistoryMakers. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
- ^ Sealock, Barbara (1 August 2011). "Artist Lorenzo Pace creates and captivates". News - Illinois State.
- ^ Finn, Robin (September 27, 2000). "PUBLIC LIVES; With Memorial, a Monumental Predicament" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Dr. Lorenzo Pace and Phillip Harrison @ 5p". Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
- ^ "Jalani and the Lock". www.publishersweekly.com. January 1, 2001.
- ^ "Jalani and the Lock | Rosen Publishing". www.rosenpublishing.com.
- ^ "Captcha | Turing Test 1.0". www.coursicle.com.
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