The Black artist passed away in March of this past year, and Chasing Me to My Grave offers most of us a chance to listen to his voice for the first time. He can only speak from his grave, and there ain’t much talking you can do from the grave.” In a literal sense, of course, Rembert’s remark about speaking from beyond the grave is accurate. Powerfully amplified by his plain and straightforward delivery, Black artist Winfred Rembert evokes some of the ugliest and most brutal aspects of American history in his posthumously released memoir: “There’s a picture I painted called ‘Almost Me’. This was an artist who approached his singular craft with equal measures of exuberance and precision.Ĭhasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I.
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