David C. Driskell: Interiors, Objects, and the Spirit of Form
Image of Adrienne L. Childs, PhD (Photo Credit: Archie Brown) ; David C. Driskell (United States, 1931–2020), Dreamer in the Forest, 2012, encaustic and collage on paper
David Driskell is well known for his bold abstractions, depictions of nature, and powerful figures, but his practice was so multifaceted that there is much more to explore. For our 2021 Bernard Osher Lecture, artist, curator, and scholar Adrienne Childs shines a light on one of Driskell’s underdiscussed subjects: his domestic interiors. Don’t miss this special opportunity to explore Driskell’s evocative interiors and reflect on what he described as “the beauty and spirit of everyday objects.”
Missed it live? Watch the recording here.
The annual Bernard Osher Lecture Series is made possible by the Peggy and Harold Osher Endowment at the Portland Museum of Art.
Adrienne L. Childs, PhD is an art historian and curator. She is an adjunct curator at The Phillips Collection and associate of the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Her scholarly interests are the relationship between race and representation in European and American fine and decorative arts. She served as curator at the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland where she curated numerous exhibitions of African American art. She is also co-curator of the recent exhibition The Black Figure in the European Imaginary at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College. Her current book project is Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure in European Decorative Arts, forthcoming from Yale University Press.