From AUCTION CENTRAL NEWS — NEW YORK — Richard Mayhew says his bold, colorful paintings are more than mere landscapes. The Afro Native American artist, who celebrated his 100th birthday in April 2024, goes so far as to refer to them as “mindscapes”. The vivid and fluorescent hues on his canvases are not found in nature, but flow from his imagination in jazzy and inventive combinations.
Mayhew synthesizes emotions in his art with colors, representing feelings such as desire, fear, and hope. He is the only surviving member of the Spiral Group, an African American art collective formed in 1963 to advocate for an aesthetic that embraced ethnicity as an agent of creative expression…. Read More on Auction Central News