David mcgee artist biography
He was born in Lockhart, Louisiana in , grew up in Detroit, MI, and moved to Texas in the s, where he received his BFA from Prairie View....
David McGee is a Houston-based artist born in Louisiana and raised in Detroit, MI. Specializing in painting, printmaking, and drawing.
Inman Gallery is pleased to present David McGee: The Tarot Cards and The Gloria Paintings, on view in both galleries September 16 – November 1, 2023. Please join us for an artist’s reception on Saturday, September 16 from 5-7pm.
An artist talk will take place on Saturday, October 7, 1pm with Katia Zavistovski, Curator at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC, where McGee will have a debut survey exhibition in Fall 2025. This is McGee’s first exhibition at Inman Gallery.
Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, David McGee’s work explores a variety of subjects encompassing the emotional weights of race, language, art history, and the recognition of existence, both individual and collective.
Working serially, McGee returns to visual themes freely to explore ideas with continuous curiosity and interrogation, allowing meaning to cyclically build within and across each respective series.
On view are three distinct yet interconnected bodies of works: a large groupi