Name: David C. Driskell: Wake Up Everybody
Start: 2026-10-02T10:00:00-0700
End: 2026-10-02T18:00:00-0700

Join us for our annual San Francisco/ Bay Area Black Art week from Wednesday September 30th - Sunday October 4th, 2026!

Friday October 2, 2026 10:00am - 6:00pm PDT

Jenkins Johnson Gallery is pleased to present David C. Driskell: Wake Up Everybody, a new exhibition celebrating the creative legacy of the legendary artist, curator, art historian, and educator David C. Driskell.

This exhibition will feature works spanning from 1960 through the early 2000s, across various media such as paintings, works on paper, collage, and printmaking, including linocuts, woodcuts, and serigraphs. The works featured reflect on the diverse travels of his life, including time raised in the South of the United States, adult travels in Africa, and time spent in nature in Maine. The exhibition title is drawn from the 1975 song by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, a call to action “Wake up all the teachers, Time to teach a new way,” a nod to Driskell’s legacy as a teacher to many of the great African American artists of the past 70 years.

Images are listed as:
Dr. David C. Driskell Mask Man, 1965
Dr. David C. Driskell Ancient Alphabets, 1990

Photos courtsey of the artist and Jenkins Johnson Gallery New York and San Francisco.

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David C. Driskell (1931-2020)

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David C. Driskell (b. 1931, Eatonton, GA, d. 2020, Hyattsville, MD) was a legendary African American artist and art historian. As an artist, scholar, and curator, he made substantial contributions to these fields that have changed the way we think about American art. His paintings and collages unite a strong modernist impulse with his personal vision... Read More →

Friday October 2, 2026 10:00am - 6:00pm PDT
Jenkins Johnson Gallery 1275 Minnesota St #200, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA

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