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Becker Gallery, Center Gallery, Rotunda, Halford Gallery, Focus Gallery, Media Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher GallerySelected Works
Outer: Abigail DeVille, Azul, 2022, wood, MDF, paint, paper, 144 x 204 x 214 inches. Inner: Abigail DeVille, Lunar Capsule, 2022, steel, aluminum, gold fabric, gold leaf, found chair, recorder, gold paint, Approximately 75 x 82 inches (diameter). Courtesy of the artist and The Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario.
Abigail DeVille, New York at Dawn, 2010, Tyvek, enamel and latex paint, dirt, American flags, graphite, lamp shade, synthetic hair, polyurethane varnish, chicken wire, plastic sheeting, plaster, garbage bags, pâpier-maché, fake eyelashes, duct tape, wood chips, wire, canvas, cigarette butt, acrylic yarn, metal, salt dough, and hardware, 102 x 114 x 96 inches, Courtesy of the artist, the DeVille Family Collection, and the Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario.
Abigail DeVille, Whole, 2010, found boards, dirt, polyurethane, 60 x 96 x 4 ½ inches, Collection of The Bronx Museum (Gift of Johannes Vogt). Courtesy the artist and The Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario
Abigail DeVille, La Loge Harlem, 2017, archival photographs, shoes, string, mirror shards, polyurethane, glass, wood, 36 ⅝ x 29 ¾ x 4 ½ inches, Courtesy of the artist, KADIST Collection, and The Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario
Sculpture: Abigail DeVille, Archive Wakes (Number Tree), 2021, Television, video, paint, stove, axe, mannequins, iron Christmas tree, gold wire, lotto tickets, chains, bungee cords with hooks, plant roots, water cooler, chains, panty hose, window fragments, broken bottles, chair, pool cue, walking canes, shoe sole, clay wheel, chandelier crystal prisms, 114 x 45 x 33 inches, Courtesy of the artist and The Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario.
Abigail DeVille, Cosmos Gate, 2022, reclaimed TVs, found footage, historical footage, Bronx locations filmed in 2022, lightbulbs, 84 x 143 x 23 inches. Courtesy of the artist and The Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario.
Abigail DeVille, Bronx Heavens (bed), 2022, metal bed spring coils, wire, nylon paracord, accumulated debris, gold foil, gold metal wire, plastic flowers, brass, lights, 89 x 38 x 20 ¼ inches, Courtesy of the artist and The Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario.
Abigail DeVille, Lunar Capsule, 2022, steel, aluminum, gold fabric, gold leaf, found chair, recorder, gold paint, Approximately 75 x 82 inches (diameter). Courtesy of the artist and The Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario.
Abigail DeVille, Black Monolith, 2022, wood, paint, lights, media players, headphones, recordings, chairs, 79 ½ x 22 ½ x 22 ½ inches (sculpture), Courtesy of the artist and The Bronx Museum. Photo: Argenis Apolinario.
About
With a humanizing lens, artist Abigail DeVille explores how marginalized communities persevere through their search for renewal and happiness as they migrate to new places that become sanctuaries. This exhibition features large-scale installations and sculptural works that are part of her “Libertas” series, as well as a newly created piece related to Bowdoin College’s history. It also includes rarely seen works that examine familial and ancestral experiences as they relate to the complex notion of freedom.
Abigail DeVille: In the Fullness of Time is a continuation of Abigail DeVille: Bronx Heavens, organized by The Bronx Museum of the Arts.