Winfred Rembert

1945-2021

American (United States)

Winfred Rembert grew up in Cuthbert, Georgia, and his artworks are a window into his youth in the segregated South of the 1950s and 1960s. His experiences of Black life are colorfully portrayed in his leather and shoe polish works. Rembert paints both the good and the bad, putting scenes of community alongside depictions of imprisonment. Church choirs, schoolhouses, cotton fields, and even his time on chain gangs are chronicled in his expressive works.