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Summer Reading List | Cullen Washington, Jr.

Summer Reading List | Cullen Washington, Jr.

Summer Reading List | Cullen Washington, Jr.

Cullen Washington, Jr., Agora 8 (2018); mixed media on canvas, 13 ft x 9 ft. Image courtesy cwashingtonstudio.com

The world is constantly looking for answers for self-fulfillment and concern for things that seem outside personal control.

I have found that neither the political nor finance can provide those answers.

I find truth in the following texts:

Metu Neter Vol. 1

Ra Un Nefer Amen

Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness

Itzhak Bentov

A Cosmic Book: On the Mechanics of Creation

Itzhak Bentov with Mirtala


Cullen Washington, Jr., Primer 8 (2022); mixed media on canvas, 43 x 97 inches. Image courtesy cwashingtonstudio.com

Cullen Washington, Jr.

Cullen Washington Jr. (b. 1972, Alexandria, Louisiana) earned his MFA from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and BFA from Louisiana State University. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe including exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas; Saatchi Gallery in London, UK; and the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. He has been an artist in residence at Amherst College (2016-17), the Fountainhead Residency (2016), The Studio Museum in Harlem (2013); Rush Arts Gallery (2012), Yaddo (2011), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2010). He is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant (2009) and a Bartlett and Montague Travel Grant (2008). His work has been written about in Art: 21 Magazine, The New York Times, The International Review of African American Art, The Boston Globe, and Art New England. His work can be found in numerous public and private collections including the Studio Museum, Charles Saatchi Gallery, and the Alexandria Museum of Art, Louisiana.

Follow Washington on Instagram: @cullenwashingtonjr


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