Donald Locke: Nexus
Atlanta Contemporary Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia
24 October 2024 – 2 February 2025
Donald Locke, London studio, 1973
Donald Locke’s solo exhibition ‘Nexus’ will open 24 October 2024 and continue until 2 February 2025. In 1992, when then 61-year-old Donald Locke, artist, teacher, critic, and poet, moved into his new brick-wall warehouse studio space at Nexus, the grassroots artists’ cooperative that would later become Atlanta Contemporary, he remarked, ‘I feel that this is the beginning, the nucleus of something.’ Honouring Locke’s penchant for the literary, the poetically abstract, and the unknowable, the exhibition ‘Donald Locke: Nexus’ engages the multiple meanings of ‘nexus’—to bind tie, connect—to reveal a practice shaped by the intersection of ideas, mediums, temporalities, and geographies. The exhibition gathers seminal works that span the artist’s dynamic 50-year career.