Khalid Kodi Asrar: A Visual Dialogue with Alice Walker (review)
Khalid Kodi is a sweet, gentle, person. But don't be fooled. Beneath his good-natured smile, there is a powerful ferocity; the ferocity of someone outraged by injustice, bigotry and senseless panels wove images and symbols from his homeland of the Sudan into stunning, abstract patterns. And even before the creation of these relatively recent works, Kodi allowed the sunnier colors of ocher, blue and green to dominate his canvases. Now, however, in his large multi-media exhibit, ASRAR: A Visual Dialogue with Alice Walker, at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Kodi's colors are greatly reduced and subsumed by his preference for red, a red that both sug-