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Dug-out Canoes Along the Big River at Mingo Village, 2000 to 2007
Rag painting: cloth, buttons, thread, wood, hogmawg, pen and ink, pencil, and paint on paper
18 in x 67 in
Private Collection
Curator’s comments
A rag painting that is layered with meaning as well as fabrics and buttons given to the Aminah Robinson by friends and acquaintances from Columbus and places she has visited. Based on the stories her Uncle Alvin told her as she was growing up as well as in old maps she studied at the library, these works document the community that bordered the Scioto River in downtown Columbus before the monumental 1913 flood. Aminah describes the series as "going back and forth in history" and including references to early Native-American and African inhabitants who populated the area hundreds of years ago as well as more recent nineteenth- and twentieth-century communities.
Visitors’ comments
Series
Life Along Water StreetExhibition history
Along Water Street: New Work by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, CMA July 6, 2007-Feb 24, 2008; Ohio tour 2009 (Akron Art Museum, Decorative Arts Center, Southern Ohio Museum, Springfield Art Museum