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Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965–1985

Edited by Sampada Aranke, Edited by Dan Nadel

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The first major exhibition and catalog dedicated to the work of groundbreaking painter and filmmaker Mike Henderson. Â Mike Henderson (b. 1944) is a painter, filmmaker, and professor emeritus at University of California, Davis. Published to accompany his first museum retrospective, this catalog surveys Hendersonâ€™s paintings and films from 1965 to 1985, which are rooted as much in Francisco Goyaâ€™s horror of humanity as in Sun Raâ€™s hope for a new Black future. In the work of that time, Henderson depicted scenes of racial violence, heteromasculinity, and abject social conditions with force and unflinching directness. Â In 1985, a studio fire damaged much of Hendersonâ€™s output from the previous two decades, obscuring vital ideas about a time of tumult and change, often referred to as a world on fire. Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965â€“1985 addresses Hendersonâ€™s multifaceted art of that period, which examined and offered new ideas about Black life in the visual languages of protest, Afrofuturism, and surrealism. Â Published in association with the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis Â Exhibition dates: Â Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art January 29â€“June 25, 2023