Ealy Mays

Ealy Mays is a Parisbased AfricanAmerican contemporary artist. His work has been exhibited in Mexicos Galeria Clave, Paris Carrousel du Louvre, Mexicos annual Jos Clemente Orozco Art competition, and New Yorks Guggenheim museum, to name a few. Legendary painter Henry O. Tanner was the first African American to exhibit at the Louvre in 1897. Mays 2005 Migration of the Superheroes exhibition at the Carrousel du Louvre makes him one of the few AfricanAmerican artists to date to follow Tanners footsteps to the Louvre.

The west Texas native, born in Wichita Falls Texas, to physician Dr. Dewey Mays and his school teacher wife Mrs. Ruby Mays, was raised in Dayton, Ohio. The family moved to Dayton after the elder Mays graduated from Howard Universitys School of Medicine. Mays states that his parents chose to live in Dayton, because at the time in the mid 1960s, Dayton had a strong industrial base and was one of the best places to live and to raise a family in America. His 1998 painting, Death of an American Boom Town demurs the economic decline of the industrial midwest and in particular, the demise in quality of life in his former hometown of Dayton, Ohio.

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