Winfred Rembert

Discover the skill, determination and resilience of African-American artist Winfred Rembert in the first published monograph on his powerful, profoundly original oeuvre Born to a family of Georgia field laborers in the era of Jim Crow, Winfred Rembert did not begin his full-time artistic practice until the age of 51, following a life of extreme hardship that saw him survive arrest, a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and seven years on chain gangs. These harrowing experiences would prove central to the narrative of his extraordinary arta striking visual memoir which tells Remberts story with beauty on carved and painted leather. The first published monograph on the visionary artist, this book presents Remberts unique body of autobiographical paintings alongside contributions by curator Zo Whitley, historian Dan Berger and poet and lawyer Reginald Dwayne Betts that introduce and contextualize these extraordinary works.