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Dr. David C. Driskell at the Greenville County Museum
April 19 - June 15

The Greenville County Museum of Art presents an overview of the career of Dr. David C. Driskell, (left, see Eruption, Mt. St. Helens, 1980) who is one of the pre-eminent African-American artists and educators of our time. A North Carolina native, Driskell advanced the understanding of the evolution of black visual art in America as a professor at Talladega, Howard, and Fisk Universities and capped his academic career as chair of the art department at the University of Maryland. Driskell is also a noted consultant in African-American art, advising actor Bill Cosby and his wife Camille on the formation of their collection, which he described in the book The Other Side of Color.

The artist’s own creativity is documented in the Greenville exhibition, on view April 19 through June 15. A recent publication, David C. Driskell: Artist and Scholar, will be available for purchase in the Museum Shop. The Greenville County Museum of Art is located at 420 College Street, on Heritage Green in downtown Greenville, South Carolina. The Greenville County Museum of Art offers its visitors a way to sample the very best in American art through traveling exhibitions and exhibitions drawn from its own collection. Since its inception, the Museum has also collected contemporary art. The Contemporary Collection includes examples from every major movement in American art, featuring artists such as Josef Josef Albers, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Eric Fischl, and Leon Golub.http://www.greenvillemuseum.org for more information.

(Image provided by the Greenville County Museum of Art.)