May 1, 2026 – August 31, 2026
In the Gallery: New Releases by Dawoud Bey and Torkwase Dyson
Paulson Fontaine Press
In Person Viewing:
2390 C Fourth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
Online Viewing:
https://paulsonfontainepress.com/in-the-gallery-new-releases-by-dawoud-bey-and-torkwase-dyson/
Paulson Fontaine Press is pleased to release five new photogravures by Dawoud Bey and two new etchings by Torkwase Dyson.
Groundbreaking American artist and MacArthur Fellow Dawoud Bey examines the Black past and present. His photographs and film installations engage the oft disappeared histories of the Black presence in America. Bey began his career as a photographer in 1975 with a series of photographs, “Harlem, U.S.A,” that were exhibited to critical acclaim in his first one-person exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. His work has since been the subject of numerous major museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe, with works held in numerous public collections.
Torkwase Dyson describes herself as a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture. Dyson’s abstract works are visual and material systems used to construct fusions of surface tension, movement, scale, real and finite space. With an emphasis on the ways black and brown bodies perceive and negotiate space as information, Dyson looks to spatial liberation strategies from historical and contemporary perspectives, seeking to uncover new understandings of the potential for more livable geographies.
