BRUCE SILVERSTEIN: LOUIS DRAPER TRUE GRACE

JANUARY 9TH - FEBRUARY 22ND, 2020 OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JANUARY 9TH FROM 6 TO 8 PM

Bruce Silverstein is pleased to present Louis Draper | True Grace. This is the gallery's first exhibition of the artist's work since announcing exclusive representation. The show will include fifty gelatin silver prints spanning from the late 1950s through the 1990s. Louis Draper worked between Harlem, New Jersey, where Draper taught at Mercer County Community College between 1982-2002, and Senegal, where he traveled to in 1977-1978. The unifying concern of his practice was to portray his subjects with respect, and what Draper referred to as true grace. Coming of age in the South, and living in New York City during the Civil Rights movement greatly impacted not only Draper's politics, but also the kind of images he created, and how they served as their own form of resistance. Draper was a young man during events, such as the lynching of Emmett Till and saw how those powerful and purposeful images were absorbed by the world at large.