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Featured On:
PBS special Art Journeys Gallery, Out of Africa into America.....Satellite in the Classroom.....Art Museum of South Texas at Corpus Christi.....Stiftlesen 3,14/Hordaland International Gallery, Bergen Norway .... Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN .... Winston Salem State University's Diggs Gallery, Winston Salem NC.....Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa.....Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC.....Irving Arts Center, Irving TX.....Beni Cassell Gallery, Las Vagas, NV.....Mosaics: Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX
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In 1991, as Augie N'Kele was preparing to add plaster to the armature of a camel he was creating, he paused, decided he liked it better the way it was, raw and unfinished. The wire and aluminum mesh framework hid nothing from the viewer, allowing one to see inside the work, adding a fourth dimension that would be lost if smoothed over and polished.
That camel, soon to be joined by two others, was mounted in a tableau setting N'Kele titled Journey to the Coast. It was the first in a series of works he would call Forgotten Heritage.
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