Artist: Driskell, David

Trained as a painter and art historian, Driskell works primarily in collage and mixed media. He is represented by galleries in New York, San Francisco and Detroit, among others. His paintings and prints have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the country – including the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art – and around the world.
Driskell has written or co-written eleven books and more than forty catalogs from exhibitions he has curated. His work garnered him the Distinguished Alumni Award in Art from Howard University in 1981 and the Catholic University of America in 1996. In 1997, the University of Maryland awarded him the President’s Medal, and in 2000 he received the Presidential Medal from President Bill Clinton on behalf of the National Endowment for the Humanities.