Collection: Darryl Lauster

A 2010 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors, Darryl Lauster is an Intermedia artist, writer, MFA Director and the Associate Chair in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas Arlington.  He has exhibited nationally at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the National Metal Museum, the Cameron Museum of Art, The Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, the John Michael Kohler Foundation and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, as well as internationally in Berlin, Paris, London and Rutten.  His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, McNeese State University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 

Notes from the Artist

My work investigates American history and contemporary culture. It hinges on the acceptance that our understanding of America is largely subjective.  My approach ranges from reverence to agitation, which is, in part, a response to my perceived lack of critical inquiry in American public discourse, which increasingly seeks to replace fact with belief.  Particularly in the contemporary era, events seem increasingly defined through ideological parameters.  In so much as my work posits a return to questioning in the Socratic sense, it is meant to interrogate our identity so that our values become reinforced through the process of critique.

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