THE FOCUS

"There has never been a free people, a free country, a real democracy on the face of this Earth. In a city of some 300,000 slaves and 90,000 so called free men, Plato sat down and praised freedom in exquisitely elegant phrases." - Lerone Bennett Jr. As a Chicano Artist, the recurrent themes are the subjugation of my community by the Dominant Culture and White Privilege. These works manifest themselves in the creation of counter-images and counter-definitions made in a self-determinant manner....

In my studio right now, I’m shifting gears into a new body of work. I had a solo show in March called Love Song at L Ross Gallery and all summer I’ve been thinking about how those paintings will be stepping stones into my new work. I’m in what I call ‘the in between time” when I build, stretch, and gesso a bunch of new canvases, draw a whole lot, make collages and little sculptures, sift, research, experiment...

David Lusk Gallery, an institution in Memphis since 1995 with a second location in Nashville, has maintained the goals David Lusk set twenty years ago: have a good time representing a small crowd of talented artists and expose clients beyond mid-south borders to the artworks these artists create. Since then the gallery’s program has grown to encompass artists from across the country with national and international reputations, exhibiting extensively in museums and galleries worldwide. Tyler Hildebrand, The Retirement Party exhibition, Da...