My Get Pushed Challenge for this week was "shooting symmetry in any form that you like, any subject you like." I knew that the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts would be a target-rich environment for such a challenge and I was not let down.
This piece is called Corner for Ana. The artist, Melvin Edwards, uses his art to reflect the pervasive exclusion of black artists from art institutions for most of the 20th century. He uses minimalist style with materials, such as the barbed wire used here, to evoke the history of race, labor and violence in America.
