Inman Gallery

“When you’re telling stories for people to remember, you sometimes need poetic devices. Painting is a poetic device...When you’re telling deep, complicated stories via painting, you need all kinds of devices to engage the viewer. It could be surface; it could be color. To tell a story intimately, you need to figure out what kind of device in the painting will make the viewer investigate its stillness. That’s the griot in me trying to tell this story through a painting.” –David McGee (BOMB Magazine, 2026)

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We’re thrilled to share this interview published in BOMB Magazine of David McGee by Chris Becker, discussing McGee’s institutional survey, “The Griot and the Nightingale”

🔗Read the full text at the link in our bio