Donald Locke "Master Works/Recent Works"

Skoto Gallery

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Skoto Gallery presents an exhibition of drawing and mixed media sculpture by the Guyanese-born artist Donald Locke.

Born 1930 in Stewartville, Demerara County, Guyana, South America, Donald Locke currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia; and has been active on the international scene since the early 1950s.

Like many artists and writers of his generation who came of age during the forties; fifties and sixties; a period of anti-colonialist movements in India, Africa and the Caribbean, Donald Locke has developed a critical framework to engage with issues of history, identity and authenticity. His work confronts tradition while absorbing the formal tenets of modernism. He challenges the assumption that if an artist is at a distance from the metropolitan centers and uses the vocabulary of Western modernism, that the work automatically lacks "authenticity". This stubborn neo-colonial mindset presupposes that modernism is a purely Western invention, conveniently forgetting that the West itself is also a product of exchange and mixture with other cultures.

Donald Locke's intention is not to seize stylistic innovation directly from the past, but to revive in modernist terms, an indigenous culture to help forge a post colonial identity. Revolution, transformation and idealization are born from radical elimination, and the foundation of new culture, must lie in demolition or reconfiguration of the past. He is a painter, sculptor, potter and writer of immense reputation, whose work mines the microcosm of his culture for symbols that can be universally understood.

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from October 16, 2008 to November 22, 2008

Artist(s)

Donald Locke

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