Philemona Williamson

The exhibition “Visions of Our 44th President“ at Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History featured 44 contemporary African-American artists using different styles and mediums of choice, all adding to a blank bust of President Barack Obama. “After close study of each of the artists’ work, one experiences so many different emotions, understanding the artists’ talent, inspiration and creativity,” said Peter Kaplan of Our World, LLC, who collaborated with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History on the exhibit. “Some of the painted busts are thought provoking, serious and strong, some simply lovely and sweet; all are unique and revealing,” he added. The blank busts are modeled after an original of Gonzales’ creation. “My aim is to expose the harmonies of form that reveal the body’s perfect design.” Gonzales said. Philemona Williamson created the bust, The Women in His Life, 2015 for this exhibition.