Arts and Lifestyle
Durham gallery presents ‘Southern Grammar’ exhibit
By Staff Reports
DURHAM – Ella West Gallery will present “Southern Grammar,” guest curated by Raleigh painter Clarence Heyward. “Southern Grammar” magnifies Black artists living and working in the diaspora of the American South through the storytelling lens of three of Heyward’s peers: Jo Baskerville’s cinematic black-and-white silhouettes, the defiant resistance of Jeremy Biggers’ hyper-realistic portraits, and the joyously creations of Sam Lao bursting with color and texture. Together, their work offers a multifaceted look at identity, memory and the cultural truths of the American South.
On view at Durham’s only Black female-owned fine art gallery, “Southern Grammar” examines the past, present and future of the South’s impact on art and culture, told within the gallery’s historic Black Wall Street location, where the printing presses of 1920s-era Black newspaper, Durham Reformer, once similarly amplified Black voices. The exhibition is on view Aug. 15 through Nov. 22…