Opening Reception: Dewey Crumpler: Life Studies
Opening Reception: Dewey Crumpler: Life Studies
Join us at The Driskell Center Gallery for our first opening of the season, Dewey Crumpler: Life Studies.
This exhibition features Crumpler’s ongoing study of shipping containers, by way of tulips. Both of these forms arrive at Crumpler as objects central to the story of capitalism and the global transport of goods. Crumpler investigates how tulips and containers inform and deform the way we think about the long history of racialized capitalism. In Crumpler’s hands, these organic bodies and industrial tools transform into deep meditations on the aesthetics of financial systems, and how those systems themselves have roots in the transatlantic slave trade. Crumpler invites us to attune our vision, to look as if searching for the clues that connect these forms to the dynamic and complex story of the Black radical tradition. Dewey Crumpler's current work examines issues of globalization/ cultural co-modification through the integration of digital imagery, video, and traditional painting techniques.
The exhibition is curated by Sampada Aranke, Curator and Associate Professor of Art History and Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University.
Dewey Crumpler, BONE, 2017, Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 74X74". Photo credit: Yosef Kalinin.