Name Michael Richards | Role Sculptor | |
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Died September 11, 2001, Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States | ||
Michael richards
Michael Rolando Richards (August 2, 1963-September 11, 2001) was a Jamaican-American sculptor whose works frequently explored African American themes.
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Life and career
Born in Jamaica, Richards earned his master's at New York University. He was an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1996 and showed his work there in "Passages" in 1999.
Richards' 1999 sculpture Tar Baby vs. St. Sebastian, was cast from his own body and resembles a Tuskegee Airman whose body is being pierced by airplane, reminiscent of iconography for St. Sebastian. Today the piece is in the collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art.
Richards died, aged 38, in the World Trade Center in the September 11 attacks.
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