At the end of 2022, David Zwirner presented a selection of photos by William Eggleston called The Outlands. They were color photos, richer, almost too.
By Robin Pogrebin
May 11, 2021
LOS ANGELES People have come back again and again. They bring family members and friends. It isn’t often that a gallery show engenders such strong responses. But this one feels different, because every face in every painting belongs to a person of color. Every piece of art was created by a person of color. And the exhibition was organized by two young people of color curating their first major show.
“It had the feeling of a warm family gathering on a day in the park,” said Alysia Cortez, describing the first of her three visits to the show, “Shattered Glass,” at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in Hollywood. “It is magical to see Black and brown people look at the walls and see themselves. I saw a couple show up with their pit bulls, I saw aunties come around to see what’s going on, and I saw so many kids.”
A Gallery Featuring Only Artists of Color Feels Like Change
“Shattered Glass” at Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles has visitors returning, and artists bonding.
From left, works by the self-taught artist Fulton Leroy Washington (a.k.a. Mr. Wash): “Emancipation Proclamation,” 2014; “Shattered Dreams,” 2020; “Targeted - Insurrection,” 2021, at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles. The artist learned to paint while he was incarcerated.Credit.Joshua White
May 11, 2021
LOS ANGELES People have come back again and again. They bring family members and friends. It isn’t often that a gallery show engenders such strong responses. But this one feels different, because every face in every painting belongs to a person of color. Every piece of art was created by a person of color. And the exhibition was organized by two young people of color curating their first major show.