Abigail DeVille
Zoom Talk with Artist Abigail DeVille
Monday, November 30
6 pm EST
Via Zoom
Join artist Abigail DeVille and curator Eileen Jeng Lynch in conversation about DeVille’s flag works since 2007, which reexamine this iconic American symbol. Utilizing locally found materials and detritus, DeVille’s work unearths forgotten histories and labor of marginalized people. The artist creates new narratives surrounding identity, migration, and immigration in a country fraught with oppression and racism.
Image above: Abigail DeVille, Charm City Roundhouse, 2016, tarps, brown paper, accumulated debris, heirlooms, materials found on-site, bicycle, a scale model of the Peale Museum, tarps, half-scale tarp version of The Star-Spangled Banner, mannequins, 20 x 15 x 8 feet. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Ginevra Shay.
Abigail DeVille's recent solo museum exhibitions and commissions include Light of Freedom at Madison Square Park (2020), The American Future at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (2018), Only When It’s Dark Enough Can You See The Stars at The Contemporary, Baltimore (2016), Lift Every Voice and Sing (amerikanskie gorki) at ICA, Miami (2017-2018), and No Space Hidden (Shelter) at ICA, Los Angeles (2017-2018), among others. Recent group shows have been held at Socrates Sculpture Park (2016); Sculpture Center (2014); El Museo del Barrio (2014); CAMH (2014), the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2013), The 55th Venice Biennale (2013), The Studio Museum in Harlem (2012,14), ICA, Philadelphia (2012), New Museum (2012), and the Stedelijk Museum (2011). DeVille is a 2015 Creative Capital grantee, 2014-15 fellow at The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and 2012 Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipient. DeVille teaches in the Interdisciplinary Sculpture Department at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and, in spring 2021, at Yale School of Art. DeVille received her MFA from Yale University and her BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology. DeVille was born in New York and works in the Bronx.
Abigail DeVille, EST 1859, 2018, Sheetrock, black light bulbs, Rosco Vivid FX Paint Hot Pink on top Benjamoore Heritage Red Paint, 8 x 20 feet. Courtesy of the artist. Photo Credit: Evan Lalonde.