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Dara Haskins (b.1992 Baltimore, MD) Has rooted her practice in Philadelphia working primarily in painting oil portraits and figurative oil and mixed media paintings. Addressing the ways the black body has been represented and looked at throughout history, she challenges the identity of being seen and unseen connecting historical content to contemporary spaces and how that relationship coexists. She is currently working on a series called “Havana time” expressively from her own photographs of people she spent time within Cuba.-Her large to small-scale paintings of objects, people, and places connect daily in domestic environments within the African diaspora.
She is also working on a series called “ quraintin paintings” that reflects on dealing with isolation, time, and opportunity during the pandemic of COVID 19. Haskins received her BFA at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2019. Winning the Artist of the week from Rush Art gallery May 2020) and The J Henry Scheidt Memorial Travel Scholarship to Cuba in (2019). She currently lives and works in Philadelphia.
The book that was mentioned in the interview is The Black Interior.
[…] Dara Haskins spoke to us from Philadelphia where she reported that lockdown continues to some extent. Haskins participated in a few online exhibitions over the last year or so, one titled Nomenclatures of Invisibility. She has her first solo exhibition coming up in which she will show pieces from her Havana Time series as well as others from a quarantine series she has been working on. This will be the first time she has been able to show this work in person. Haskins created a residency for herself in Havana, Cuba during which time she began the Havana Time series. To hear more about this endeavor, and why Haskins refers to the recent years as “panini time” listen to the complete interview. […]
[…] Dara Haskins spoke to us from Philadelphia where she reported that lockdown continues to some extent. Haskins participated in a few online exhibitions over the last year or so, one titled Nomenclatures of Invisibility. She has her first solo exhibition coming up in which she will show pieces from her Havana Time series as well as others from a quarantine series she has been working on. This will be the first time she has been able to show this work in person. Haskins created a residency for herself in Havana, Cuba during which time she began the Havana Time series. To hear more about this endeavor, and why Haskins refers to the recent years as “panini time” listen to the complete interview. […]