The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will present David-Jeremiah: "The Fire This Time," organized by guest curator Christopher Blay. The exhibition’s title, derived from that of James Baldwin’s novel, The Fire Next Time (1963), refers to a stanza of the spiritual hymn "Mary Don’t You Weep: God gave Noah the rainbow sign, / No more water, the fire next time."
The body of work on view in this exhibition is a group of vertical assemblages of black and other monochromatic paintings on shaped wood that form an installation. Collectively titled "Hood Niggas Camping," the 28 works stand over 10 feet tall. This primary configuration surrounds viewers completely.
Fire is a major motif in David-Jeremiah’s work. Figuratively, fire is the crucible through which the artist has passed, having spent nearly four years in prison for an aggravated robbery he committed as a teenager. During that "staycation," as he refers to it, David-Jeremiah conceived of binders full of work, operating in a conceptual space that defies any self-imposed rules made from the comfort of most artists’ studios.
Birthing new modes of self-reflective determination and urgency born out of detention, David-Jeremiah brings the fire this time, incinerating what has come before to propose something new: confinement-conceptualism. His maximalist approach to art-making feeds the flames of "Hood Niggas Camping" and its towering paintings.
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will present David-Jeremiah: "The Fire This Time," organized by guest curator Christopher Blay. The exhibition’s title, derived from that of James Baldwin’s novel, The Fire Next Time (1963), refers to a stanza of the spiritual hymn "Mary Don’t You Weep: God gave Noah the rainbow sign, / No more water, the fire next time."
The body of work on view in this exhibition is a group of vertical assemblages of black and other monochromatic paintings on shaped wood that form an installation. Collectively titled "Hood Niggas Camping," the 28 works stand over 10 feet tall. This primary configuration surrounds viewers completely.
Fire is a major motif in David-Jeremiah’s work. Figuratively, fire is the crucible through which the artist has passed, having spent nearly four years in prison for an aggravated robbery he committed as a teenager. During that "staycation," as he refers to it, David-Jeremiah conceived of binders full of work, operating in a conceptual space that defies any self-imposed rules made from the comfort of most artists’ studios.
Birthing new modes of self-reflective determination and urgency born out of detention, David-Jeremiah brings the fire this time, incinerating what has come before to propose something new: confinement-conceptualism. His maximalist approach to art-making feeds the flames of "Hood Niggas Camping" and its towering paintings.
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