Light and Dark

hen the Black artist Wilfred Rembert died in March 2021, he was not really famous, but he was hardly an unknown either. After his career was launched with a 2000 solo exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery, he had one-man shows in museums in Montgomery, Alabama; Flint, Michigan; and Youngstown, Ohio. The prestigious Adelson Galleries in New York represented him. PBS carried a 2011 documentary about Rembert’s life and art that museums and universities around the country screened; a second documentary played at the 2019 Mountainfilm showcase in Colorado. His. Publication in September of (Bloomsbury, 2021) burnishes Rembert’s reputation and the accompanying publicity has brought his life and his work to a broader audience.