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The Studio Museum in Harlem Summer 2011 Exhibitions and Projects

NEW YORK, NY.- This summer, past and present converge is at the Studio Museum in three exhibitions of innovative art spanning the last half-century. Spiral: Perspectives on an African-American Art Collective features artworks from members of the Spiral art collective, founded by artists including Romare Bearden, Charles Alston, Norman Lewis and Hale Woodruff and active from 1963 through 1965; Evidence of Accumulation debuts brand-new work by the 2010–11 artists in residence Simone Leigh, Kamau Amu Patton and Paul Mpagi Sepuya, who have been working in the Museum’s studios for the last year; and Lyle Ashton Harris: Self/Portrait presented a selection of large-format Polaroid photographs portraying Harris’s friends, family, colleagues and self from 1998–2008. Also on view is: Expanding the Walls 2011, the annual exhibition of young artists enrolled in the Museum’s acclaimed high school photography