Category Archives: Nekisha Durrett

Off Color opens in New York

September 12, 2008 – 11:00 AM
Off Color, co-curated by Kalia Brooks and Hank Willis Thomas and presented in two parts, opens on September 21 at Rush Arts Gallery in New York and the Corridor Gallery in Brooklyn.  The exhibition, which originally premiered in Miami in... Read More »
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Opening Reception for She's So Articulate, June 13, Arlington Arts Center

June 15, 2008 – 9:17 AM
Artists Renee Stout, Torkwase Dyson, Djakarta, Nekisha Durrett, Jeffry Cudlin, exhibition curator, artist Claire Huschle, exhibition curator Henry Thaggert, and artists Erika Ranee and Renee Cox at the opening reception for She's So Articulate.  (Photo copyright Tony Powell.)  Following... Read More »
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Nekisha Durrett premieres new series, Their Eyes Were Watching Everything, in She's So Articulate

May 23, 2008 – 9:15 AM
Nekisha Durrett will premiere a new series, Their Eyes Were Watching Everything, in the new exhibition, She's So Articulate: Black Women Artists Reclaim the Narrative, at the Arlington Arts Center on June 10.In this new series of unique large-scale narratives,... Read More »
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The lyrical and the profane

November 29, 2007 – 7:19 PM
From the intimacy of adolescence and the vulnerability of youth to the disquiet implicit in the formal elegance of unassembled aircraft models, the photographic image has long served as agency for the lyrical and the profane.In May Days Long Forgotten,... Read More »
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Nekisha Durrett and Those Other Folks

August 1, 2007 – 9:17 AM
Nekisha Durrett's large-scale portrait series, Those Other Folks, reveal her interest in the ubiquity of popular media.  The Washington, D.C. based artist recently introduced two new characters into her cartoon-like family: a young boy named Kwakou and Wellington, a Norwich... Read More »
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