In 1992, when then 61-year-old Donald Locke (b. Guyana, 1930-2010) 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.” Honoring Locke’s penchant for the literary, the poetically abstract, and the unknowable, 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞: 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐬 returns to the site of Nexus and probes the ways a pursuit of the idea of nexus itself permeated Locke’s work.

Donald Locke: Nexus, currently on view at Atlanta Contemporary, is curated by Grace Aneiza Ali with support from Brenda Locke, the Locke Family, and the Estate of Donald Locke.