Night in Tunisia Bill Hutson An Allegory with Venus and

An Allegory with Venus and Cupid by Bronzino (1545)

he placed his subjects in a stylized way against geometric

sorrow and birth

It has many elements that are drawn from my experience as an immigrant as well as tradition

a borough of New York City

Night in Tunisia Bill Hutson An Allegory with Venus andFrom the Artist My earliest prints at Brandywine [Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, in 1985] related to festivities such as Carnival (Brazil), Mardis Gras (New Orleans), Jonkonnu (Jamaica), and other Caribbean and American African based festivals, with their spectacular imagery and costumes. As in such festivals, my earlier prints were tinged with Eurocentric pageantry, costumes, and religions, although African ancestral imagery predominated. The