Delano Dunn: Novelties
19 June - 11 October 2021
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Downtown Brattleboro, Vermont
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The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) is thrilled to present the first museum solo show of New York-trained, Chicago-based visual artist Delano Dunn (b. 1978, Los Angeles). The exhibition, Novelties, features two mixed-media series, one of which reconfigures racist Uncle Remus cartoons into new storybook arrangements, and the other of which addresses the trauma of appropriation through the narrative device of Dunn protecting his family gumbo recipe. BMAC is pleased to bring Novelties to international audiences by way of an interactive, high-resolution walk-through interface hosted on the Museum’s website.
In his practice overall, Dunn explores questions of racial identity and perception through painting, mixed-media, and collage. He draws heavily from his upbringing in South Central Los Angeles, sourcing inspiration from his own life as well as pop culture he grew up around in the 1980s and 1990s.
More information is in the above-linked press release, and a preview of works on view is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download high-resolution image files. Image reuse must be with credit to the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, unless otherwise noted in the file title. Studio shots are by Daris Jasper.
