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“I remember the times that I spent in the studio with my father,” says well-known artist Gwendolyn Aqui-Brooks, of her legendary father, Dr. Albert Carter. Carter, a prominent art scholar and professor, and the longtime curator of Howard University’s art gallery, died in 1981. “I loved to watch him in the studio and, at times, I was a subject of some of his paintings,” recounts Aqui-Brooks, noting “he did about four portraits of me when I was a child. Believe it or not, I remember the one when I was three years old, where he touched my face and told me to be still. I also remember the outfit that I had on for that particular painting.”
Along with her late father—and her husband, Bernard Brooks, also a talented artist—Aqui-Brooks will be the focus of the upcoming exhibition, Color Us Different: A Family of Painters. The highly-anticipated exhibit runs September 11 through October 25 at Black Art In America Gallery & Gardens in East Point, with an artist reception on September 13 from 2pm to 4pm.
Artwork: Dr. Albert Carter (1938)
