David Driskell Prints, Part Ii

David Driskell is featured at both the Yale University Art Gallery and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

David Driskell is featured at both the Yale University Art Gallery and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
By Roger Catlin, Hartford Courant

It's the season of David C. Driskell in Connecticut museums.

In New Haven, a student-chosen exhibit "Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery," which includes Driskell's 2002 screenprint, "Dancing Angel," continues through June 26 at the Yale gallery. It was curated by students from Yale and from the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland in College Park, where the exhibit originally was shown. It opened at Yale last month with a lecture from Driskell, who is known as much as an educator, curator, scholar and collector as he is an artist.

But the big Driskell event has been happening at the Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford. The massive show of his prints over a half century, "Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking," with its 75 pieces, proved too large for the center, so it was broken into two parts. The first, which opened back in October, ran through early this month. The concluding half opened last weekend and runs through August.

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