For any artist, attaining a prize in art is the highest form of approbation, a great honor as well as a fantastic career boost. As a practical matter, however, the latter is more consequential; yet
Tschabalala Self surveys Black American life in figurative paintings, textile collages, and sculptures.
During his lifetime, self-taught Miami painter Purvis Young (1943–2010) was something of a legend in his city and gradually gained national prominence in the realm of "outsider art." Extraordinarily…