A Conversation with Dudley Charles
“Once you are involved in making art, everything seems secondary.”
“Once you are involved in making art, everything seems secondary.”
In this exhibit of artists of Guyanese heritage, almost forty works of photography, painting, welded steel, works on paper, and sculpture provided the foundation for expression that covered a continuum from abstraction to political subtext.
While his father’s side of the family inspired a progressive path for Shaw, his mother was aghast at his choice—at age 26—to travel to New York City to study with Stuart Davis.