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THE LEGACY COLLECTION
Celebrating the depth and breadth of Black history, culture, and aesthetics, Red Rooster Overtown is proud to present the Legacy Collection, a world-class collection of modern & contemporary artwork from 15 artists worldwide. Housed in the former, Clyde Killens Pool Hall building — a historic site known to host icons such as Muhammed Ali, Aretha Franklin, and Count Basie — Red Rooster partners thoughtfully curated artwork ranging in genre & media to echo the spirit of Miami’s vibrant & diverse Black population, unique history, and bold style. The Legacy art collection blends a tapestry of narratives, colors, and textures to offer a multi-sensory experience that bridges Overtown’s rich cultural narrative, featuring Overtown’s own, Purvis Young, and linking through time to contemporary art masters like Theaster Gates & Kara Walker.
While dining and socializing with us, we encourage you to scan the QR code on your table and take a visual walk-through of the Legacy Collection at Red Rooster Overtown.
Jamea Richmond-Edwards
A wonderful thing about Jamea Richmond-Edwards and her work is that she believes in a shared experience, a cultural experience, and an emotional experience that everyone on earth can relate to. She believes that no one is totally Black or White, Asian or Latin, gay or straight, that a little bit of everyone lives inside all of us and portrays that in the paintings. Her shimmering collages are an investigation into her family’s story and diverse history dating back to the 18th century in America. Jamea Richmond-Edwards was born in the 1980s in Detroit and decided to attend Howard University for graduate school and has lived and worked in the D.C. area ever since.
Phyllis Stephens (b. 1955) is an Atlanta-based, fifth-generation quilt maker considered by critics to be a Master of Black American story quilts. Having quilted professionally for more than thirty years, she describes her practice as a way to travel through time and revisit fond memories that feature cities and nature scenes as backgrounds and women, children, and families as subjects. Her quilts have been displayed in some of the most prestigious museums and galleries in the world including The Museum of the American Quilter’s Society in Paducah, Kentucky and the Fine Art Museum of Ghana. Her vibrant practice has won her fans across the world; notable collectors include Samuel L. and LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Denzel and Pauletta Washington, and the late Aretha Franklin.
Abdoulaye Koonate
Abdoulaye Konaté (b. 1953, Diré, Mali) employs woven and dyed cloths native to Mali to explore socio-political and environmental issues. The artist creates large-scale figurative compositions that question how societies and individuals worldwide have been affected by factors including war, the struggle for power, ecological shifts, and the AIDS epidemic. He refers to the West African tradition of using textiles as a means of commemoration and communication, balancing global political and social reflections with a reference to his own local and cultural history.
Hugh Hayden’s artistic trajectory is a slow burn that continues to evolve. An architect by training, the Dallas native (b. 1983) continued designing stores for Starbucks while pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University (MFA, 2018). He recently presented American Food, his first solo exhibition in the UK; the show brought together wooden picnic tables, cast-iron skillets, and a multimedia stove as an homage to the history and significance of cooking and dining together in America. As Hayden considers Southern cooking the first uniquely American cuisine—which originated in kitchens run by enslaved cooks who infused recipes with African ingredients and techniques—the exhibition featured a variety of new and recent works, including 26 ‘skillets’, recast from a unique pairing of a wooden West African-style mask and a found cast iron frying pan. The artist holds this mirror up to his own identity as an African American: an abstraction on the African antecedent.
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