ARTS Southeast is pleased to host Davion Alston in the ON::View Residency from June 12th – August 1st, 2025. Davion is our second artist to be awarded a 2-month Residency.
About the Artist: Davion Altson (GA/CT/NY)
Davion is a visual artist, educator, and critic based between Atlanta, GA, New Haven, CT, and Brooklyn, NY. He describes his work as a constant flow of doing and undoing; thematically informed by his personal upbringing, and out of the desire to know where his genealogical lineage comes from. The language for his artistic process rests at the intersections of visibility, endurance, stillness, memory, displacement, and connectivity; usually blurring and redefining his relationship between photography, sculpture, and installation.
About the Project
“There is history that sits beneath my feet in my grandparents backyard. In recent bodies of work I have travelled home to McIntosh and Glynn County to document various sites of oyster tabby shells, ruins, plantation grounds, and architecture. I want to deeply understand the roots and foundations of where I come from by documenting parts of the land that still hold original tabby ruins and foundations (related to slave trade and housing); to later create my own molds and studies for a longer term project. Each visit feels like a homecoming as I unpack a history that is embedded within the infrastructure of my upbringing. Through the camera, my desire to handbuild, and my intention to mine memory; my goal is to photograph and build different small forms of oyster tabby objects – using this as a time to process and to redefine the key materials I need to use to create.”
– Davion Alston
Happy Hour Meet & Greet: Monday, June 16th, 6 - 8PM at Over Yonder (2424 Abercorn Street)
Artist Talk: TBA
Project Finale: Friday, August 1st from 5 - 9PM during First Fridays in Starland
The ON::View Residency is made possible with investment by the City of Savannah.
This program is sponsored in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency - the National Endowment for the Arts.
Special thanks to our local Residency Sponsors: Starlandia Supply, SCAD Museum of Art, Telfair Museums, Thompson Savannah, Green Truck Pub and Starland Yard.
https://artssoutheast.org/davionalston
You may also like the following events from Sulfur Studios: A Project of Arts Southeast:
- This Saturday, 14th June, 05:00 pm, "Tomorrow and Yesterday, Selections from The Do Good Fund" at ARTS Southeast, May 2 – Jun 14, 2025 in Savannah
- Next Wednesday, 18th June, 06:00 pm, Happy Hour Artist Talk: "Past – Present – Future:" Eric David Wooddell in The Drive Thru Art Box in Savannah
- Next month, 8th July, 05:00 pm, "Past – Present – Future" Eric David Wooddell in The Drive Thru Art Box, Apr 10 – Jul 8 in Savannah
Also check out other
Arts events in Savannah,
Meetups in Savannah.
