Abigail Deville
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LIGHT OF FREEDOM
Light of Freedom is a thirteen-foot-tall reference to the torch and flame of the Statue of Liberty. The statue’s hand and torch were on view in Madison Square Park from 1876 to 1882 as a nineteenth-century-style marketing event intended to rouse excitement and gather funds to complete the statue in France before it was installed…
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Brand New Heavies
Brand New Heavies, an exhibition curated by Racquel Chevremont and Mickalene Thomas—collectively known as Deux Femmes Noires, brings together monumental work by Abigail DeVille, Xaviera Simmons, and Rosa-Johan Uddoh. Each artist has produced a new, site-specific installation that combines video, sculpture, and architecture, and comprises natural, industrial, and found materials. DeVille has created a 20-foot…
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ABIGAIL DEVILLE TRAILBLAZING ABSTRACT ART
“IF TRAILBLAZING WAS EASY, THE ROAD WOULD BE PAVED” Abigail DeVille was born in 1981 in New York, where she lives and works. Maintaining a long-standing interest in marginalized people and places, DeVille creates site-specific immersive installations designed to bring attention to these forgotten stories, such as with the sculpture she built on the site…
Abigail Deville, abstract art, African American abstract artist, Alma Thomas, American abstract artist, Barbar Chase Riboud, Betty Blayton, Brenna Youngblood, Candida Alvarez, Chakaia Booker, Howardina Pindell, Jennie C. Jones, Kansas, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kianja Strobert, Lilian Thomas Burwell, Maren Hassinger, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Mavis Pusey, Mildred Thompson, Nanette Carter, Savona Bailey-McClain curator, Shinique Smith, West Harlem Art Fund
West Harlem Art Fund 