Center for Black Visual Culture.
Candice Madey is pleased to announce an exhibition that pairs work from the 1980s by Darrel Ellis and Miguel Ferrando, examining the artists’ lifelong friendship and shared artistic influences. Merging art historical themes with deeply personal and cultural narratives, Ellis and Ferrando were active figures in the downtown New York art scene of the 1980s and shared a feverish commitment to their work, which explored portraiture, still life, and landscape genres. Like many artists of their generation, both succumbed to AIDS; Ellis died in 1992, and Ferrando in 1996.