Ronald Lockett Painting Untitled Style:U.S.A Painting, 1994 Part of a larger series

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Ronald Lockett Painting Untitled Style:U.S.A Painting, 1994 Part of a larger seriesRonald Lockett was born in Bessemer, Alabama in 1965. This made him the youngest member of the Birmingham Bessemer groupa group that includes notable artists like his mentor Thornton Dial, as well as Kerry James Marshall and Jack Whitten. Even more importantly, his age meant Lockett grew up after the Civil Rights Movement, a fact that forever haunted both his identity and art. Lockett found himself caught in a racial limbo, living in a society that