Her 2011 divorce from her first husband, Mathew Knowles, Lawson threw Over the course of our tour, Lawson continually expresses that art hasīeen a major tool in helping her find joy and retain a sense of selfĭespite dedicating so much of her life to her children. He nevertheless chose to work as a mail sorter at a Waco post office. He’s the only American in history who designed scarves for Hermès, yet In front of a painting by Kermit Oliver, sheĭelivers an impromptu trivia session on the Texan mixed-media artist: Says Lawson, who has always seen her relationship to art as more “I love collecting and knowing the history of the artist,” Hinkle, and Lawson’s own niece Dominiqueīeyoncé. Turn-of-the-century African-American ex-pat who garnered huge successĪfter moving to Paris-to more contemporary works by Toyin Ojih Today, her collection has swelled to include works by artists rangingįrom Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, and Henry Ossawa Tanner-the “I have a storage facility with, probably, every African-American artist’s history.” Photograph by Gillian Laub Artwork, © Kermit Oliver, courtesy of Hooks-Epstein Galleries. “Apeshit” and which was shot exclusively in and around Paris’s iconicįollowing her divorce in 2011, Knowles says, “one of the things that made me the most happy was reading art books,” like these on Radcliffe Bailey, Kermit Oliver, and Diego Rivera. Just daysīefore my interview with her mother, Beyoncé and her husband, Jay-Z,ĭropped the instantly viral first video for their surprise joint album,Įverything Is Love, which accompanies the bombastic, champagne trap song Metatronia (Metatron’s Cube), an interdisciplinary performance projectĪbout the creative process, at Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum. Work at New York’s Guggenheim Museum and London’s Tate Modern, debuted This spring, Solange, who has previously presented Solange, visual art has taken an increasingly prominent place in the Pruitt, courtesy of The Artist and Koplin Del Rio Gallery right, © Genevieve Gaignard, courtesy of Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles.Īnd while music might first come to mind when thinking about Beyoncé and Photographs by Gillian Laub Artworks, left, © Robert A. Left, Elegant Garveyite, by Houston artist Robert Pruitt, who is known for his versatility in both style and medium right, Me Too, by Genevieve Gaignard, a Los Angeles–based artist whose work explores the intersections of race, class, and femininity. “I’m so happy that Iĭid, because both of them are really aware of their culture, and I thinkĪ lot of that had to do with looking at those images every day, those Images of African-Americans,” Lawson tells me. My kids were growing up, it was really important to me that they saw Mother’s collection, then housed in their Houston childhood home. Said in a January interview with Surface magazine, referring to her Something to say that my introduction to art was black art,” Solange Owed to their mother’s powerful influence and care. Vaulted them into a new realm of celebrity, whose privacy is guardedĪbove all else, and who mutually agree that much of their success is Singer-songwriters Beyoncé Knowles Carter and Solange Knowlesįerguson-two women whose prodigious, individual musical talents have World, when your mother needs an outfit, she needs an outfit.īecause this is, after all, the mother of Grammy Award-winning That even (and perhaps especially) if you’re the biggest pop star in the Mother has expropriated from my wardrobe over the years. She had dropped by her elder daughter’s house to collect a few outfitsįor the day’s shoot, calling to mind the shoes and accessories my own Stylist, and a makeup artist standing by. I found Lawson in the kitchen applying mascara, with an assistant, a Hollywood glamour (the architect completed work in 1924) and Rodeo DriveĬhic (Lawson designed the infinity pool installed along the front path) But I did indeed arrive at her house, which she While some art collections feel like a mausoleum, Lawson’s comesĪlive as she stops before various pieces, sharing anecdotes andĮarlier that morning, when I typed what I’d been told was Lawson’sĪddress into my smartphone, I had visions of being blindfolded uponĪrrival and taken to a remote location, wherein the interview mightĪctually commence. Vantage point, the home is saturated with stunning mementos of black Two paintings, one by Hale Woodruff, the other Charles Alston,Īre mounted in the staircase and just above the grand piano. Michelle Obama, thanking Lawson for her support on Barack’s 2008Ĭampaign. To the left, a set of glinting Fabergé eggs are onĭisplay in a glass bureau, which also houses a handwritten letter from A smooth figure, carved from wood by the sculptorĮlizabeth Catlett, is situated near her Hollywood home’s front door in a Tina Knowles Lawson is walking me through her art collection on a brightįriday afternoon.
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