we now welcome african-american artist and bostonian robert freeman whose new works exhibition will be showned a adelson galleries on harrison avenue in the south ends. the exhibit will front runner from friday november 4 through this is freeman's first solo exhibition in boston in almost a decade. welcome to urban update. bob. thanks for coming in. >> thank you. >> first of all tell me why do you describe yourselves as an african-american artist and not simply an artist? >> well, you can see by my heritage i'm african and i like to have the african-american as a part of the title but beyond that, my family moved to the my dad was an insurance policy man. he opened up his oh insurance company. several years later he was made state corporation of the state for all of the insurance for all of ghana. they stayed there for ten years, we lived there for ten years and my parents moved on and open up insurance companies in several countries. before the money was going out to the swiss or lloyd's of london. so by opening up the insurance the african federations can hold on to the money and the