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b. 1948 -

Victor Davson was born in Georgetown, Guyana and received a BFA degree from Pratt Institute (1980), Brooklyn, New York. He was the co-founder of Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, with artist Carl E. Hazlewood in Newark, NJ, in 1983, and served as its founding director until 2016. His work is heavily influenced by the anti-colonial politics of the Caribbean, and by the intellectual powerhouses of that period. These include extraordinary writers and activists like Martin Carter, Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney. Since 1996, his series of paintings and drawings, are his attempt as an artist to negotiate the roots of identity in a terrain of loss and desire. He lives and works in West Orange, NJ.

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    • VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - ) Flash.
      Apr. 04, 2024

      VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - ) Flash.

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - ) Flash. Archival pigment print with sequins on thick wove paper, 2016. 483x508 mm; 19¾x20 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, one of 10 proofs, aside from the edition of 30. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "A/P" in pencil, lower margin. This print reproduces Victor Davson's Dub Factor: Heroes (Flash) from his 2015 series of paintings on vinyl record album covers. This work was painted on Aretha Franklin's 1986 album Aretha which was designed by Andy Warhol. Victor Davson was born in Georgetown, Guyana and received a BFA degree from Pratt Institute (1980), Brooklyn, New York. He was the co-founder of Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, with artist Carl E. Hazlewood in Newark, NJ, in 1983, and served as its founding director until 2016. His work is heavily influenced by the anti-colonial politics of the Caribbean, and by the intellectual powerhouses of that period. These include extraordinary writers and activists like Martin Carter, Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney. Since 1996, his series of paintings and drawings, including this series of paintings on album covers, are his attempt as an artist to negotiate the roots of identity in a terrain of loss and desire. He lives and works in West Orange, NJ. Consigned to support the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.

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    • VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - ) Flash.
      Oct. 19, 2023

      VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - ) Flash.

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - ) Flash. Archival pigment print with sequins on thick wove paper, 2016. 483x508 mm; 19 3/4x20 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, one of 10 proofs, aside from the edition of 30. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "A/P" in pencil, lower margin. This print reproduces Victor Davson's Dub Factor: Heroes (Flash) from his 2015 series of paintings on vinyl record album covers - this work was painted on Aretha Franklin's 1986 album Aretha which was designed by Andy Warhol.

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    • VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - ) Suns Coffins Crosses.
      Oct. 19, 2023

      VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - ) Suns Coffins Crosses.

      Est: $4,000 - $6,000

      VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - ) Suns Coffins Crosses. Color lithograph with chine colléon Rives BFK gray paper, 1993. 762x1053 mm; 30x41 3/8 inches. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 2/20 in blue ink, lower edge. Printed by Eileen M. Foti at and published by the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, with the blind stamp lower left. Another impression is in the collection of the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University. Victor Davson was born in Georgetown, Guyana and received a BFA degree from Pratt Institute (1980), Brooklyn, New York. He was the co-founder of Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, with artist Carl E. Hazlewood in Newark, NJ, in 1983, and served as its founding director until 2016. His work is heavily influenced by the anti-colonial politics of the Caribbean, and by the intellectual powerhouses of that period. These include extraordinary writers and activists like Martin Carter, Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney. Since the 1990s, his various series of paintings, drawings, and prints are his attempt as an artist to negotiate the roots of identity in a terrain of loss and desire. He lives and works in West Orange, NJ.

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    • VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - ) Flash.
      Oct. 07, 2021

      VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - ) Flash.

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - ) Flash. Archival pigment print with sequins on thick wove paper, 2015. 304x321 mm; 12x12 5/8 inches, full margins.. Artist's proof, one of 10 artist's proofs, aside from the edition of 30. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "A/P" in pencil, lower margin. This print reproduces Victor Davsons's Dub Factor: Heroes (Flash) from his 2015 series of paintings on long playing vinyl record album covers - this work was painted on Aretha Franklin's 1986 album Aretha which was designed by Andy Warhol. Victor Davson was born in Georgetown, Guyana and received a BFA degree from Pratt Institute (1980), Brooklyn, New York. He was the co-founder of Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, with artist Carl E. Hazlewood in Newark, NJ, in 1983, and served as its founding director until 2016. His work is heavily influenced by the anti-colonial politics of the Caribbean, and by the intellectual powerhouses of that period. These include extraordinary writers and activists like Martin Carter, Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney. Since 1996, his series of paintings and drawings, including this series of paintings on album covers, are his attempt as an artist to negotiate the roots of identity in a terrain of loss and desire. He lives and works in West Orange, NJ.

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    • VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - ) Bad Cow Comin' (Remember Martin Carter).
      Apr. 22, 2021

      VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - ) Bad Cow Comin' (Remember Martin Carter).

      Est: $6,000 - $9,000

      VICTOR DAVSON (1948 - ) Bad Cow Comin' (Remember Martin Carter). Oil and wax on heavy wove paper, 1999. 965x1270 mm; 38x50 inches. Provenance: private collection, New Jersey. Victor Davson was born in Georgetown, Guyana and received a BFA degree from Pratt Institute (1980), Brooklyn, New York. He was the co-founder of Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, with artist Carl E. Hazlewood in Newark, NJ, in 1983, and served as its founding director until 2016. Davson's thinking is heavily influenced by the anti-colonial politics of the Caribbean and the intellectuals of that period. These include writers and activists like Aimé Césaire, Martin Carter, Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney. Since 1996, his series of paintings, Bad Cow Comin' is his attempt to negotiate the roots of identity in a terrain of loss and desire - it is a response to strong memories from his childhood in Guyana of performances in which men masqueraded from house to house on Christmas Day. These carnivalesque characters serve as metaphors for the people of the African Diaspora who survived transatlantic slavery because of their resiliency. "The visual and the performative in the Caribbean are explicitly linked; the brilliance and innovation of the costumes are tied to the music and the meaning of the performance. Masking traditions embody both the colonizer and the colonized. In them we witness both "civilized" European and "savage" African religious expressions; the maintenance of the status quo, and the opposition to it that is expressed in ritual defiance. There is menace in the air, and there is exuberance. Davson can still hear the pitch and rattle of the kettle drum in his head." —Belinda Edmondson Ph.D.

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