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VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - ) Flash.
Archival pigment print with sequins on thick wove paper, 2016. 483x508 mm; 19¾x20 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, one of 10 proofs, aside from the edition of 30. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "A/P" in pencil, lower margin.
This print reproduces Victor Davson's Dub Factor: Heroes (Flash) from his 2015 series of paintings on vinyl record album covers. This work was painted on Aretha Franklin's 1986 album Aretha which was designed by Andy Warhol.
Victor Davson was born in Georgetown, Guyana and received a BFA degree from Pratt Institute (1980), Brooklyn, New York. He was the co-founder of Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, with artist Carl E. Hazlewood in Newark, NJ, in 1983, and served as its founding director until 2016. His work is heavily influenced by the anti-colonial politics of the Caribbean, and by the intellectual powerhouses of that period. These include extraordinary writers and activists like Martin Carter, Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney. Since 1996, his series of paintings and drawings, including this series of paintings on album covers, are his attempt as an artist to negotiate the roots of identity in a terrain of loss and desire. He lives and works in West Orange, NJ.
Consigned to support the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.
