ROSALIND NZINGA VAUGHN-NICHOL

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Bold strokes: A look back at the best NJ art shows of 2022  

...But what really distinguished the summer show was the depth of its emotion, the gravity of the work, and the dignity that carried from canvas to canvas. And though Art in the Atrium never gets too experimental, it was also noteworthy how many of the most striking pieces in the show were new ones, like the crowd of spectral Black bodies that seemed to float toward the edges of the frame in Rosalind Nzinga Nichol’s mixed-media “So Great a Cloud of Witnesses.”

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Black art exhibition at Morris Museum depicts 

‘fellow travelers on a difficult journey: 

TRIS MCCALL | June 21, 2022  

"...Rosalind Nzinga Nichol’s elegant mixed-media hallucination “So Great a Cloud of Witnesses” finds Black faces peering out from slender cut-outs of Black bodies. Her figures stand in a rough line and the gentle swirls that ties the congregation together bleed off of the edge of the paper. Every member of the group is composed of other members: Children contain the breaths of ancestor spirits and continuity is unbroken, no matter how ragged present circumstances may be..."

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