Title: No Words
Medium: acrylics on canvas
Dimension: 6’ x 24’ triptych
Year: 2020
Acquisition of Walker Art Center
725 Vineland Place, Minneapolis, MN 55403 USA

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Expo Chicago 2024

EXPO CHICAGO + DREAMSONG

April 11 - 14, 2024

Location: Navy Pier

600 E Grand Ave, Chicago IL 60611

Under New Ownership, Expo Chicago 2024 Maintains It’s Midwestern Charm

“It might be in its 11th edition, but EXPO Chicago is embarking on a new chapter. This year’s fair—the largest in the U.S. Midwest—is the first since Frieze announced last summer that it’d be acquiring EXPO, along with The Armory Show in New York….”

—Maxwell Rabb

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2022 Guggenheim Fellow Ta-coumba T. Aiken

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Tyrone Ta-coumba Aiken Bio

Ta–coumba is a Twin Cities artist, arts administrator, educator and community activist who focuses on public art and collaborative projects. His “rhythm paintings” on paper and canvas are loose and lively. He has participated in the creation of over 300 murals and public art sculptures with themes ranging from local history to the artist's own style of rhythmic pattern and spirit writing. The artist has served on the boards of the Minneapolis Arts Commission, the African American Cultural Arts Center, Forecast Public Arts, and the St. Paul Art Collective and has acted as an advisor on the arts for both the City of St. Paul and the City of Minneapolis. He has been the recipient of awards including a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock–Krasner Foundation Fellowship and a Bush Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship. His painting entitled, “Forever Saint Paul” was awarded the Guinness Book World Record for the most Lite-Brite pegs ever used (596,000+) to create a painting. This piece is permanently located in the Saint Paul Union Depot. His works can be found in public and private collections including those of the Walker Art Center, The McKnight Foundation, General Mills, Herbie Hancock, Taj Mahal, and Maya Angelou.