Sale 2649 - Lot 155

VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - )

Suns Coffins Crosses.

Color lithograph with chine-colléon Rives BFK gray paper, 1993. 762x1053 mm; 30x41 inches. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 2/20 in blue ink, lower edge. Printed by Eileen M. Foti at and published by the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, with the blind stamp lower left.

Another impression is in the collection of the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University.

Victor Davson was born in Georgetown, Guyana and received a BFA degree from Pratt Institute (1980), Brooklyn, New York. He was the co-founder of Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, with artist Carl E. Hazlewood in Newark, NJ, in 1983, and served as its founding director until 2016. His work is heavily influenced by the anti-colonial politics of the Caribbean, and by the intellectual powerhouses of that period. These include extraordinary writers and activists like Martin Carter, Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney. Since the 1990s, his various series of paintings, drawings, and prints are his attempt as an artist to negotiate the roots of identity in a terrain of loss and desire. He lives and works in West Orange, NJ.