Floyd D. Tunson
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Floyd D. Tunson works across a remarkable range of media, and he is successful to varying degrees in all of them, as this forty-year retrospective at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center made clear. With 110 works on viewjust a small fraction of the prolific sixty-five-year-old artist’s massive outputthe survey offered an explosion of ideas and emotions, unhindered by any single stylistic mode. Graceful assemblages and swirling abstractions stood as compelling counterpoints to the locally based African-American artist’s piercing sociopolitical commentary on race and class relations