Sale 2528 - African-American Fine Art, January 30, 2020

68 c GLORIA R. BOHANON (1941 - ) Who Reflects Who . Oil and enamel paint on thin board, circa 1970. 610x457 mm; 24x18 inches. Initialed in oil, lower right. Provenance: Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles; the Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., Chicago. The typed company label lists the artist in care of the Brockman Gallery. Born in Atlanta, GA, Gloria Bohanon received a BS in Art Education in 1962, and a MA in Art Education in 1968 from Wayne State University. She also attended Los Angeles City College and California State College in Los Angeles. Bohanon was very much a part of the Los Angeles art scene by 1970; that year she had both a solo exhibition at Alonzo and Dale Davis’s Brockman Gallery, was part of Suzanne Jackson’s Gallery 32 important exhibition Sapphire Show . She was included in Samella Lewis and Ruth Waddy’s 1971 survey Black Artists on Art, Volume 2 . Kellie Jones notes that Bohanon also was included in the exhibition Black Mirror , organized by Betye Saar, the first devoted to women of color at Womanspace, the predecessor of the Woman’s Building. For thirty years, Bohanon was an inf luential educator as a professor of painting, printmaking and design at Los Angeles Community College. More recently, Bohanon was included in the 2009 exhibition at Loyola Marymount University Gallery 32 & Its Circle . Jones p. 25; Waddy/Lewis p. 51 and 134. [2,000/3,000]