At 19, Alteronce Gumby left Harrisburg without knowing who Picasso was. He returns to his hometown this week a world traveler with an international reputation as an abstract painter and budding filmmaker.
“I’m really excited to come back home and share the work I’ve been up to with the community that helped raise me,” Gumby, now 40, told PennLive during a recent phone interview.
Gumby, whose many family ties to Harrisburg continue to lure him from his Bronx, N.Y., home, is being celebrated with an exhibit at the Susquehanna Art Museum. The show, featuring his colorful, cosmos-inspired, glass-and-gem-bedecked paintings, is entitled, “If Herr Street Could Talk.”…