Dawoud Bey: Elegy
Oliver, Valerie Cassel / Bey, Dawoud / Brooks, LeRonn P. / Perry, Imani / Sharpe, Christina / Boxer, Eileen
Dawoud Bey focuses on the landscape to create a portrait of the early African American presence in the United States. Renowned for his Harlem street scenes and expressive portraits, Dawoud Bey continues his ongoing series on African American history. Elegy brings together Bey's three landscape series to date--Night Coming Tenderly, Black (2017), In This Here Place (2021), and Stony the Road (2023)--elucidating the deep historical memory still ...