Salon Highlight: Darryl DeAngelo Terrell
Louis Buhl & Co. is thrilled to open our latest Salon Highlight installment featuring a series of photographs by Darryl DeAngelo Terrell. Terrell is a Detroit-based artist who works primarily within lens-based media to explore the displacement of Black and Brown people, femme identity and strength, the Black family structure, sexuality, gender, and safe spaces.
While pursuing their MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015, they began experimenting with performance art and gender expression which lead to their creation of alter-ego Dion, a hyper-feminine and sensual character that plays a leading and continuous role in the artist鈥檚 multimedia practice. Pulling from the Black urban aesthetic (i.e. wigs, makeup, luscious fur coats, braggadocious jewelry and other items that allude to Black queer opulence), Terrell transforms themself into a fictional identity that, in their mind, exhibits everything they lack; Dion is a manifestation of the artist鈥檚 high-femme self, exploring what it means to not only be viewed as whole and worthy of living, but utterly desirable.
For their Salon Highlight, Terrell has produced four photographs that spotlight Dion鈥檚 hands. Set against rich textures, they wear an array of decadent accessories, from gaudy nails to chains of white pearls and luscious velvet gloves, exuding a sense of maximalist luxury. The focus on the hand as an extension of Dion ties back to the influence of Terrell鈥檚 mother growing up and her warm, tactile nature that she passed down to them. Terrell recalls memories of shopping with their mother, and her common tendency to touch everything she saw, every fabric, motivated by the desire to experience the objects to their fullest degree through the act of touch. Conceptually, the series is motivated by this ego-centric idea that 鈥渨hatever Dion wants, Dion gets;鈥� this confidence is an essential and defining characteristic of the sought after individual.
Louis Buhl & Co. is thrilled to open our latest Salon Highlight installment featuring a series of photographs by Darryl DeAngelo Terrell. Terrell is a Detroit-based artist who works primarily within lens-based media to explore the displacement of Black and Brown people, femme identity and strength, the Black family structure, sexuality, gender, and safe spaces.
While pursuing their MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015, they began experimenting with performance art and gender expression which lead to their creation of alter-ego Dion, a hyper-feminine and sensual character that plays a leading and continuous role in the artist鈥檚 multimedia practice. Pulling from the Black urban aesthetic (i.e. wigs, makeup, luscious fur coats, braggadocious jewelry and other items that allude to Black queer opulence), Terrell transforms themself into a fictional identity that, in their mind, exhibits everything they lack; Dion is a manifestation of the artist鈥檚 high-femme self, exploring what it means to not only be viewed as whole and worthy of living, but utterly desirable.
For their Salon Highlight, Terrell has produced four photographs that spotlight Dion鈥檚 hands. Set against rich textures, they wear an array of decadent accessories, from gaudy nails to chains of white pearls and luscious velvet gloves, exuding a sense of maximalist luxury. The focus on the hand as an extension of Dion ties back to the influence of Terrell鈥檚 mother growing up and her warm, tactile nature that she passed down to them. Terrell recalls memories of shopping with their mother, and her common tendency to touch everything she saw, every fabric, motivated by the desire to experience the objects to their fullest degree through the act of touch. Conceptually, the series is motivated by this ego-centric idea that 鈥渨hatever Dion wants, Dion gets;鈥� this confidence is an essential and defining characteristic of the sought after individual.
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