A new exhibition at the Bronx Museum in New York looks at the work of Darrel Ellis, one of the foremost – and under-recognised – artists of the downtown New York art scene
Two months later Ellis’ son, Darrel, was born in the South Bronx. Growing up during the 1960s and 70s,lived in a world unlike the one his father chronicled. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, Black power, gay liberation, and New York’s perilous economic collapse, Ellis rejected respectability politics in favour of radical critique.
says Antonio Sergio Bessa, chief curator emeritus at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, who co-curated the new exhibition,brings together over 160 works on paper that considers Ellis’ innovative studio practice in relation to his exploration of Black identity and selfhood.
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