Barkley L. Hendricks
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Barkley L. Hendricks (born 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a contemporary American painter whose contributions to black conceptualism have been likened to those of David Hammons and Adrian Piper. While he has worked in a variety of media and genres throughout his career (from photography to landscape painting), Hendricks' best known work takes the form of life-sized painted oil portraits. In these portraits, he attempts to imbue a proud, dignified presence upon his subjects, most frequently urban people of color. Hendricks’ work has been noted as unique for its matrimony of both American realism and post-modernism.
Hendricks earned his certificate at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and received both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Yale University. Currently, he serves as a professor of art at Connecticut College.
Hendricks' work can be viewed in many public exhibitions, including the National Gallery of Art, the Chrysler Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others. Hendricks' career painting retrospective, with works dating from 1964 to present, will begin its US tour at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in spring 2008, traveling on to the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and ending at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
