The Inner Eye: Vision and Transcendence in African Arts

(Los Angeles—January 31, 2017) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is pleased to present The Inner Eye: Vision and Transcendence in African Arts, an exhibition featuring more than 100 works of sculpture and textiles. Through a series of themes, the exhibition conveys multiple notions of visuality and celebrates artists and performers as agents of insight and transformation. The Inner Eye showcases works from diverse cultures in west, central, and east Africa, and made from a range of media including wood, ivory, terracotta, metalwork, and raffia palm fiber. The works, dating from the 13th to 19th centuries, include figures, masks, initiation objects, royal emblems, and reliquary guardians that guided people to spirit realms, the highest levels of esoteric wisdom, and the afterlife.

Exhibition: The Inner Eye: Vision and Transcendence in African Arts On view: February 26–July 9, 2017 Location: Resnick Pavilion