Lula Mae Blocton is a Michigan-born African American abstract oil painter, who traces her heritage to a rural community near Selma, Alabama. Her fifty-year creative career has been to visualize her rich and complicated racial, cultural, and personal history.
Blocton uses authentic African designs to develop patterns that explore the contrast between geometric and curviliner forms, creating a perception of transparency by layering colors, all of which have social and political connotations. The omnipresent rainbow spectrums, along with black and white, are intentional suggestions of race and LGBTQ+ human rights issues, as well as representing her commitment to social, racial, and economic justice.
Lula Mae Blocton is a Michigan-born African American abstract oil painter, who traces her heritage to a rural community near Selma, Alabama. Her fifty-year creative career has been to visualize her rich and complicated racial, cultural, and personal history.
Blocton uses authentic African designs to develop patterns that explore the contrast between geometric and curviliner forms, creating a perception of transparency by layering colors, all of which have social and political connotations. The omnipresent rainbow spectrums, along with black and white, are intentional suggestions of race and LGBTQ+ human rights issues, as well as representing her commitment to social, racial, and economic justice.
