The Front Room: Abigail DeVille
The Front Room: Abigail DeVille
September 8 – October 22, 2022
1 Rivington Street, New York
CANDICE MADEY is pleased to announce Abigail DeVille's Oil & $ series in the gallery's fourth iteration of The Front Room, offering a concise introduction to a previously unseen body of work that DeVille began over ten years ago. The series is composed of painterly abstractions of motor oil and dollar bills affixed to paper, capturing the murky relationship between energy dependence, economic growth, and the US dollar.
In October 2022, The Bronx Museum of the Arts will open Abigail DeVille: Bronx Heavens, a solo exhibition examining the myths and realities of local, familial and ancestral histories and the convoluted notion of freedom in a country fraught with oppression and racism.
Recent exhibitions of her work include a major outdoor installation at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC (2022), Light of Freedom, a mixed-media installation through which the artist responds to the Black Lives Matter movement within the larger context of America’s long relationship to the idea of liberty itself; Brand New Heavies at Pioneer Works, New York; The American Future at PICA, Portland.
DeVille’s work has also been exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Studio Museum in Harlem; the New Museum; Punta Della Dogana, Venice, Italy; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. DeVille has designed sets for theatrical productions at venues such as the Stratford Festival, directed by Peter Sellers; Harlem Stage; La Mama; and Joe’s Pub, directed by Charlotte Braithwaite. She has received honors at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard; is a Creative Capital grantee; received an OBIE for design; and has been nominated for The Future Generation Art Prize in the 55th Biennale di Venezia. DeVille was the Chuck Close/Henry W. and Marion T. Mitchell Rome Prize fellow at the American Academy in 2017–2018. She teaches at Maryland Institute College of Art and is a critic at the Yale School of Art.
Born in 1981 in New York, DeVille received her MFA from Yale University in 2011 and her BFA from the New York Fashion Institute of Technology in 2007.
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