Artist Talk: Living in Brilliant Suspension with Didier William & Jerry Philogene

Join Curator Jerry Philogene for an artist talk with Didier William to get an inside look at the artist’s solo exhibition, newly opened Living in Brilliant Suspension, and celebrate the opening of our fall exhibitions.

Living in Brilliant Suspension is a solo exhibition featuring works by multimedia artist Didier William. The exhibition features more than 20 works exploring the relationship between the body, ground, and land, offering poetic reflections on the contemporary narratives of living and ancestral memories of belonging.

The new works are influenced by the flora and fauna produced in the wetlands and swamps of the Atchafalaya Basin in northwest Louisiana, allegorically connecting people to water, history, and the sedimentation created in the wetlands by movement and time. Continuing with his signature imagery of bodies ungrounded and navigating atemporal geographies that expound on the immigrant experience and the kinetic life of displaced people, these paintings, drawings, and sculptural figures offer vibrant and brilliant texture and materiality for capturing generational memories.

Didier William is originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He earned an BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Bronx Museum of Art, The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, The Museum at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Carnegie Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Figge Museum Art Museum.

The artist talk is free and will follow a gallery tour of Deep Seated.