#TBT!
In celebration of
#WomensHistoryMonth, we are highlighting Deborah Grant: Christ You Know it Ain't Easy!!, exhibited in Spring 2014, which presented Deborah Grant's first solo show in a museum in New York. The exhibition was the latest installment in Grant's ongoing series Random Select, in which she interweaves historical accounts and personal experiences with references to contemporary political and social issues.
Grant selected materials from a variety of sources which she assembled together on birch panels through a drawing method using silhouetted figures and calligraphic marks and lines. For the exhibition, Grant produced a large four-panel piece (Crowning the Lion and the Lamb, as well as twenty-four smaller birch panels (Obedient Unto Death, Even Death on a Cross and Hosanna to the Son of David) and a series of five drawings (Easter’s Best). Deborah Grant, God’s Voice in The Midnight Hours, 2013. Oil, acrylic, enamel, paper, Arches W.C. paper, linen, and wood on twenty-...