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Seen On Campus: Style Variation 4 (Beard)

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March 6th, 2023

Black man's head as a geometric bust
Derrick Adams (American, 1970-) Style Variation 4 (Beard), 2020 Screen print, archival inkjet, and acrylic gloss varnish on Somerset museum eag eadiant white paper 27 x 20 in Gallery Purchase Derrick Adams is a multimedia and multi-disciplinary artist working out of Brooklyn, NY. He is known for working in a broad spectrum of mediums such as painting, collage, and sculpture, as well performance, video, and sound installations. Common epithets in his work are geometric characters with swaths of flat color, like in Style Variation 4 (Beard). Themes of Black Americans at leisure and in joyful states are also common, as...
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Alumni Highlight – Alex Locke ’10

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March 3rd, 2023
A few weeks ago, gallery intern Kaiyan Wang had the honor to interview Davidson alum Alex Locke ‘10. Alex is currently the Head of Client Strategy for the Americas in the 20th and 21st Century Art division at Christie’s. He undertakes this leadership role in one of the world's top auction houses with years of experience in the art industry.  After majoring in art history at Davidson, he graduated from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in 2011, and started his 12 year career in the art auction business. His story demonstrates the power of persistence and the importance of following your...
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Jacolby Satterwhite, Avenue B

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March 1st, 2023

Jacolby Satterwhite, (American, b. 1986) Avenue B, 2018-19 2- channel HD color video and 3D animation with sound RT: 20:38 Jacolby Satterwhite's Avenue B, now on display in the Smith Gallery, is a part of his Birds in Paradise suite. This work may be considered a posthumous collaboration with his mother, Patricia, who used creative practices such as drawing and singing to cope with her schizophrenia. As a part of the Bird in Paradise suite, much of the imagery in Avenue B is derived from these drawings. Purple is a reoccurring color in Satterwhite's work, as a presentation of womanism...
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Seen on Campus: Floridawater II

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February 27th, 2023

Allison Janae Hamilton (American, b. 1984)Floridawater II, 2019 24 x 36 inArchival pigment print, AP 1/2Gallery Purchase from the Dr. Joan Huntley Art Acquisition Fund Floridawater II captures a murky, underwater scene in Florida's Wacissa River. A woman — Hamilton herself — occupies the center of the photograph, draped in a white dress that the sunlight beams down upon into the water. In the pockets of fabric where the sun bleeds through, her dress appears pinky-orange in comparison to the cool tones surrounding her, like she is a source of light. The flowing white dress and its pseudo-supernatural light emission...
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Jacolby Satterwhite, Blessed Avenue

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February 24th, 2023
Jacolby Satterwhite (American, b.1986) Blessed Avenue, 2018 Two-channel HD color video with sound RT: 19:18 Jacolby Satterwhite's Blessed Avenue, now on display in the Smith Gallery, is a part of his Birds in Paradise suite. This work may be considered a posthumous collaboration with his mother, Patricia, who used creative practices such as drawing and singing to cope with her schizophrenia. As a part of the Birds in Paradise suite, much of the imagery is derived from drawings made by Satterwhite's mother Patricia. Purple is a reoccurring color in Satterwhite's work, as a presentation of womanism and in particular, the...
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