Table of Contents

Director's Foreword / Kimerly Rorschach 8
Curator's Acknowledgments / Trevor Schoonmaker 11
Artist's Acknowledgments / Barkley L. Hendricks 12
Birth of the Cool / Trevor Schoonmaker 14
Barkley L. Hendricks, Anew / Richard J. Powell 38
Conversation with Barkley Hendricks / Thelma Golden 58
Barkley Hendricks: Ordinary People / Franklin Sirmans 78
Palette Scrapings / Barkley L. Hendricks 88
Selected Artist Chronology / Barkley L. Hendricks 116
About the Contributors 128
Exhibition Checklist 130
Selected Bibliography 133
Reproduction Credits 137

About the Author

Trevor Schoonmaker is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. He is the editor of Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhode, the catalog of a 2007 exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art. He is also the editor of Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, D Troit: The Art, Music, and Culture of the Motor City, and Fela: West Africa to West Broadway.

Reviews

“One of [Connecticut’s] most gifted but least-known artists. . . . Critics and curators have come to regard Mr. Hendricks’s portraits as some of the most distinctive in recent art.” - Benjamin Genocchio (New York Times)