Director Blitz Bazawule is reimagining The Color Purple for a new generation. The 1985 historical drama based on the Alice Walker novel delved into the intimate suffering of Southern Black women in a way rarely portrayed in mainstream productions. 

Bazawule co-directed Black Is King and distributed his feature debut The Burial Of Kojo on Netflix through Ava DuVernay’s Array Films. 

The original production was directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey,  and Danny Glover. It was then adapted into a Broadway musical in 2005, experiencing several star-studded revivals in locations including Chicago and London. The production earned Tony, Grammy and Emmy awards for its innovation.

The artist’s Lamborghini-inspired ‘I Drive Thee’ exhibition is on display through March 5.
For more than a decade, David-Jeremiah has been one of the most provocative artists in Dallas. He first made a name for himself as an actor, then as a performance artist. As a visual artist, he’s gone from zero to 60 in two years flat, a feat as impressive as the 2.2 seconds it takes a Huracán from Lamborghini, the car brand that inspired the work in Jeremiah’s exhibition “I Drive Thee,” now on display at Gallery 12.26.

Jeremiah references Lamborghini specifically because the company names its car models after bulls who have been victorious over matadors in the tradition of Spanish bullfighting. This series of eight circular paintings, or tondos, are painted in the slick bright red, black or yellow colors popular for sports cars. These steering wheel-shaped works, such as 2021′s El Cobarde, are aggressive in size but subtle in imagery, invoking elements of the human male form, or more particularly the corpse.