David Driskell (1931-2020), Self-Portrait, 1953, oil on board, 15¼ x 11". Collection of the Estate of David C. Driskell, Maryland. Photograph by Luc Demers. © Estate of David C. Driskell. Courtesy DC Moore Gallery, New York.Remembering David Driskell
The Portland Museum of Art in Maine holds the first major exhibition celebrating the life and career of artist, curator and scholar David Driskell, who passed away in April 2020 from the coronavirus. David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History runs June 19 through September 12 and includes close to 60 works, surveying 70 years of the artist’s remarkable career from the 1950s onward, with art from both public and private collections, including rarely seen pieces from the artist’s own collection.
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Sedrick Huckaby, She Wore Her Family’s Quilt, 2015, oil on canvas. Photograph by Gregory Staley.
Memories & Inspiration
A traveling exhibition at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum presents 62 works from The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art, a body of art collected over a period of more than 35 years by the working-class couple. Their collection includes works by such esteemed artists as Romare Bearden, Beverly Buchanan, Elizabeth Catlett, Gordon Parks, Alma Thomas and Charles White. Memories & Inspiration: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art will be on view through August 22.
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Gisela McDaniel, Self Portraits In: Self portraiture in surrounding, in landscape, in DNA, in objects, in material, in eyes, in stories, in images, in the present, in the past, in plastic, in the familiar, 2021, mixed media installation, dimensions variable. Image courtesy the artist. Photo credit: Clare Gatto.
Things with Feathers
Detroit-based artist Gisela McDaniel will create a major public mural titled Things with Feathers as part of The Mistake Room’s trio of newly commissioned public projects for its Art Rise project. McDaniel’s project, an expansive mural and soundscape, is “based on interviews with individuals in Los Angeles and elsewhere whose experiences with violence shed light on the injustices and inequities that the pandemic has exacerbated.” Based in downtown Los Angeles, The Mistake Room is a nonprofit space that supports global arts, culture and ideas.
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Josh Tiessen’s Streams in the Wasteland comes out this summer.
New Josh Tiessen Book
Award-winning artist Josh Tiessen is releasing a new book this July featuring paintings from his Streams in the Wasteland series. Each image is accompanied by commentary from the artist. Tiessen is a member of the prestigious art groups International Guild of Realism, Artists for Conservation and Society of Animal Artists. His new book, titled Streams in the Wasteland after the series of works, includes an original soundtrack composed by Tiessen’s brother, as well as environmental and wildlife conservation resources and other features. —
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