From Birmingham to Gee’s Bend, the Souls Grown Deep Foundation is directly investing in Alabama communities where artists and quilters live, work - and struggle.

09/24/2021 The New York Times

Purvis Young (1943–2010) was a self-taught artist, born in the Overtown neighborhood of Miami, FL.

01/01/2021 Fine Art Shippers

The president of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership makes a case for resale royalties regardless of government action.

11/25/2020 Artnet News

Lawyers, collectors, ‘voodoo stuff with a cut chicken head’ : The extraordinary tale of a beloved painter - and the people who wanted his art.

01/08/2020 The Washington Post

During his lifetime, self-taught Miami painter Purvis Young (1943-2010) was something of a legend in his city and gradually gained national prominence in the realm of “outsider art.”

05/01/2019 Art in America

Purvis Young’s life was an example of the “other” side of Miami. Far removed from the glitz and tourist hotspots, Young was a man of the streets.

04/22/2019 FIU Magazine

He only painted what he felt like painting - truly and honestly. For decades, from the 1960s through the early 2000s, a man by the name of Purvis Young could be found painting assemblies of angels, hoards of wild horses, floating versions of both, and stacked boxy buildings onto pieces of scrap wood, metal and/or completely asymmetrical cuts of paper.

12/14/2018 Bidsquare Blog

Inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2018

01/25/2018 Florida Department of State

An extremely prolific painter, Purvis Young combined found pieces of wood, crates, and abandoned door panels to construct rough hewn grounds of various dimensions and often created make-shift painted frames by affixing scraps of wood to their perimeters.

03/06/2015 Africanah

The art world considered his work “outsider art”. But to those who recognized his self-taught talent, Purvis Young was a man who put a forgotten South Florida neighborhood on the map.

09/01/2014 Venice Magazine Fort Lauderdale

I been drawing all my life, but I taught myself to paint in the early seventies. I seen the war going on.

website: Souls Grown Deep

Current Museum Exhibition, with two embedded videos in the article.

Website: Jefferson City Museum of Modern Art

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Hampton Art Lovers presents Purvis Comes Home: Manchild in the Promise Land

07/03/2020 JohnE.J. Butler

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James Kalm returns to the James Fuentes Gallery to capture some unobstructed views of the Purvis Young exhibition. Purvis Young (1943-2010) is one of the artists who have recently changed the perception and appreciation of self-taught African American art by the mainstream art establishments and institutions.

03/12/2019 jameskalmroughcut

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Video used at the induction of Purvis Young into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.

01/25/2018 Florida Division of Arts and Culture

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A 30 minute in depth look at Purvis Young (1943-2010) interviewed inside the intimacy of his inner-city Miami studio.

09/20/2016 Skot Foreman Gallery

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Sugarcane Magazine visited the exhibit “Under the Bridge, Beyond the Beach and Above the Muck: The Art of Purvis Young” at MOCA North Miami.

02/18/2015 SugarcaneMagazine

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American artist Purvis Young (1943-2010) interviewed during his Boca Raton Museum of Art retrospective exhibition guest curated by Skot Foreman.

07/23/2013 GallerySkotForeman

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Filmed by Najee Dorsey the week of Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 at the Black Art in Miami show at the Purvis Young Studio Museum.

12/10/2011 Najee Dorsey

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Watch a unique interview with legendary contemporary artist Purvis Young at the Purvis Young Museum in Fort Lauderdale FL.

08/19/2011 Purvis Young Museum

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A trailer from the documentary Purvis of Overtown. Featuring the acclaimed artist Purvis Young who was born, lived and died in Overtown Miami.

06/12/2011 PurvisYoungMuseum

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Excerpt from “Purvis Young of Overtown”.

10/22/2009 HouseofBluesArt