Exhibition ‘David Driskell: Icons Of Nature And History’ Is Celebration Of Driskell’s Renowned Career

The High Museum’s latest exhibition “David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History” is a celebration of the life and works of David Driskell. The exhibition features more than 60 different works, spanning his seven decades-long career.

Driskell was a master painter and printer maker, known for his vivid use of color and his intricate collage work.

“Driskell’s command of vibrant color and line, and his attentiveness to what he called ‘the symbolic presence of form,’ endowed his subjects with a kind of frisson like that of an electrical charge, which made his work esthetically vigorous, bold and spirited,” says High Museum modern and contemporary art curator Michael Rooks.