Upcoming Exhibition

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JULYAN DAVIS | American Ghosts

Opening, 5pm - 7pm Friday, April 26th - May 25th

Julyan Davis tells stories in paint. For the past 35 years he has painted America’s lost histories and vanishing landscape. From Appalachian ballads to the life of a Bonapartist exile in the Deep South, his touring museum shows (in collaboration with musicians, poets and historians) have focused on forgotten stories from across America: stories that simultaneously bring the past to life and remind us how much the past speaks to the present.

Davis’s current series ‘American Ghosts’ is something unusual in narrative art, bringing together his craft as both a painter and novelist. With no prior text, it is a journey of awakening written only in images. ‘American Ghosts’ follows the interweaving paths of three fictional women personifying key moments of American history; the Gold Rush, the Civil War and the Dustbowl. In this allegory of both the Gilded Age and Westward Expansion, the ghosts of Betsy, Belle and Nancy gather a caravan of outliers on their journey across history and the land herself. “My ghosts and I are on a path of discovery,” says Davis. “I’m eager to see what history will teach us next.”
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