Join us for our fall exhibition titled Dewey Crumpler: Life Studies on Friday, September 6th, at the Driskell Center.

Crumpler’s current work examines issues of globalization/ cultural co-modification through the integration of digital imagery, video, and traditional painting techniques. Dewey Crumpler (b. 1949) considers painting a way of processing history and interrogating the sensuous data that comprise Black life. The artist works in series, focusing on select forms that recur as motifs throughout his decades-long oeuvre. These include the tulip, void, container, and hoodie. For Crumpler, studying these forms is a way of examining the histories and industries that inform Black life and culture.

Image: Dewey Crumpler, Green Bananas, 2017, Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 74X74″. Photo credit: Yosef Kalinin