Darryl DeAngelo Terrell
My name is Darryl DeAngelo Terrell. I'm a Detroit Based artist who primarily works within lens based media (i.e. Photography, Video), performance, and writing. I am also a Curator, DJ, Organizer, and Educator. I received my Master of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and my BFA from Wayne State University. I work under the philosophy of F.U.B.U (This Shit Is For Us*). I'm always thinking about how my work can aid to a larger conversation about blackness, and it many intersectionalities. My work explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, sexuality, gender, safe spaces for all black bodies, and personal stories, all while keeping in mind the accessibility of art.
I am a 2022 Lighthouse Work Fellow, 2022 FiresIsland Artist in Resident, 2021 Black Rock Senegal Resident, 2021 Redbull House of Art Resident, 2019/2020 Document Detroit Fellow, 2019 Kresge Arts In Detroit Fellow of Visual Arts, 2019 Artist in Resident at Northeastern Illinois University, 2018 Luminarts Fellow in Visual Arts, 2017/18 Hatch Project Artist in Resident at Chicago Artist Coalition, 2017 Artist in Resident at ACRE, 2017 semifinalist for the Edes Fellowship. I have performed and exhibited work at The Museums of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago IL, The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NYC NY, The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, IL, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, TN, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale, AZ and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC.
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I Wish I Was Perfectly Happy
Artist Statement/ Artwork Statement:
“From Memory” consists of Video, Watercolor Paintings, and Texted based work on paper, where I re-tell stories of my childhood, growing up in Detroit, and my relationship with my father. On the night of October 12, 2002, my father turned himself in for the murder of his then-girlfriend of 4 years. On October 12, 2002, I learned that my super Hero wasn’t.
With “From Memory” I re-enact my last car ride with my father in the 21 min, a two-channel video titled (8059 Farnsworth (You Got Me), where Channel 1 is from the perception of my father as the driver, and Channel 2 being the perception of a young 11-year-old self in the back seat. Think of the car and how it was a space to bonding for us, one of the sources for my current taste in music, as we would consistently listen to artist Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, The Roots, Chub Rock, and Marvin Gaye.
“I Wish I Was Perfectly Happy” consists of visually dissecting my black queer fat body using Plastic surgery motifs. Influenced by Archival images of Sarrah Baartman, I positioned my body in a similar vein while using a marker to dissect and label my body by how it is viewed by society (i.e Black Community, Queer Community, Society, etc).
From Memory