FEATURED VIDEOMaster Works/Recent Works, 2008

Gallery Talk: Insight into Donald Locke’s sculptures, drawings, and ceramics at Skoto Gallery, Chelsea, NY

by Donald Locke 

Available here for purchase through the Skoto Gallery.

THE WORK OF DONALD LOCKEPublications & Media

New World
January 18, 1965, “Portrait of an Artist” by Nancy Graham

Ceramic Review
January-February 1974, No. 25, “Four Studio Potters” by Julian Treuherz

Westindian World
Friday, February 21st to Thursday, February 27th, 1975, “An ‘Intensely Guyanese’ Sculptor” by M. Wallace

Express & News
August 1, 1975, “An Air of Exploration” by Linda Talbot

Arts Review
London, April 14, 1978, “Amalgam Review” by Guy Burn

Panorama Magazine
Milan, Italy, May 30, 1978, “Donald Locke Galleria Lorenzelli” by Luigi Carluccio

N.p.
July  28, 1972, “Locke’s work on show in London”

The Citizen
August 16, 1978, “Donald Locke Spruces up his Sculpture”

State Press
October 10, 1980, “Artist Derives Life from Desert” by Michel DeMarsche

Scottsdale Daily Progress
October, 17, 1980, “Guyanese Sculptor looks to Arizona for his Ideas” by Kelly Walton

ARTSPACE: Southwestern Contemporary Arts Quarterly
Spring 1980, “Donald Locke” by Clarabel Cone and Barbara Cortright

New Art Examiner
February 1982, “Art Press Review” by Mark Michael Leonhart

Scottsdale Daily Progress
March 18, 1983, “Sculptors Debate: What’s Art?” by Kathryn Coe

Phoenix Exposure
April 1983, “Perception” by Kimberly Grant Moody

Arizona Republic
June 26, 1983, “Hardball: Sculptor’s Intellectual Demands Teamed up with Aesthetic Drive” by E.J. Montini

Scottsdale Daily Progress
December 28, 1983, “All about Art” by Kelly Walton

Arizona Business Gazette
February 27, 1984, “Blatant, Comical Mix it up at Alwun House” by Mark Barrack

Arizona Living
July 1985, “Artistic Visions” by Mark Alan Barrack

ARTSPACE: Southwestern Contemporary Arts Quarterly
Summer 1986, “Phoenix Letter” by Joseph Young and Barbara Cortright

The Signal
1987 (cover shot and review), “Donald Locke: Continuing the Dialogue” by David Chorlton

Arizona Republic
January 8, 1988, “Sculptor Extends his Influence through Pen and Classroom: Multitalented Artist Exhibits Bronzes in Tempe” by Susi Lerma

Phoenix Gazette
June 25, 1988, “Show gives Black Artists Exposure” by Lynn Pyne

New Times
March 22-28, 1989, advertisement for “Art Detour” exhibition

Smithsonian Institution’s American Visions
October 1989, “The Multifaceted Donald Locke” by Vicky Hay

The Other Story
1989, exhibition catalogue, “Recovering Cultural Metaphors” by Rasheed Araeen

Marxist Monthly
1989, “The Other Story Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain” by Corinna Lotz

Contemporary Forum Newsletter
Spring 1989, “Artists among Us” by Donald Locke

Evening Standard
January 4, 1990, “Black Pride and Prejudice” by Brian Sewell

Phoenix Magazine
January 1990, “The Color of Money” by Lori K. Baker

Art Monthly
February 1990, “The Other Story” by Petrine Archer-Straw

The Phoenix Gazette
n.d., “Modern Sculpture?  Tempe has Array” by Lynn Pyne

The Afro Caribbean Post
n.d., “Donald Locke” by Joan Mooney

Phoenix Gazette
n.d., “‘Artists’ Exhibition a Treat for Arizona” by Lynn Pyne

N.p.
n.d., “Whatever else you see it as, this is art” by Barbara Denny

N.p.
n.d., “Locke on show at London Art Centre” by Barbara Wright

Black Enterprise
June 1992, “Absolut Locke”, Heritage Series advertisement

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
August 28, 1992, “Building a Creative Atmosphere” by Catherine Fox

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
October 14, 1994, “Donald Locke’s Best Works Come in Small Packages” by Catherine Fox

The Dictionary of Art
#13, edited by Jane Turner, MacMillan Publishers, 1996

Peachtree: The Magazine of Southern Style
July 1996, “Unveiling of An American Renaissance: The Cultural transformation of the New South told through the works of 13 emerging, national artists” by Dr. Maria Lluisa Borras, The Lowe Gallery

Oxford Dictionary of 20th Century Art
by Ian Chilvers, 1998

Studio Pottery: Twentieth Century British Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection
edited by Oliver Watson, 1999

Creative Loafing
February 1999, “Cultural Hybrid: Donald Locke Exhibit a Visual Autobiography” by Cathy Byrd

British Studio Ceramics
2002, by Paul Rice

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
July 2002, “The National Black Arts Festival Kicks off Today- Fest’s Best” by Catherine Fox

Creative Loafing
July 10-July 16, 2002, “Amulets and Omens” by Felicia Feaster

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
July 19, 2002, “Getting to Know Joe Potaro” by Catherine Fox

Art Papers Magazine
November/December 2002, “Atlanta Review” by Richard Gess

The 9th Annual Masters Series, Donald Locke: The Road to El Dorado, Twelve Years in Atlanta
exhibition catalogue. Essay: Donald Locke: The Journey of Joe Potaro by Carl E Hazlewood, February 2003

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
February 21, 2003, “The Power of Locke” by Catherine Fox

Sculpture Magazine
April 2003 “Donald Locke, Solomon Projects” by Amre Klimchak

Home Improvement Magazine
November 2003, “Portraying Atlanta’s Artists: Atlanta’s Art Scene Overflows with Talent” by Karen Warren

Talking Furniture Design: The Language of Contemporary Southeastern Artisans
exhibition catalogue, Museum of Design Atlanta, March 2004

Bending the Grid: Modernity, Identity and the Vernacular in the work of Donald Locke
exhibition catalogue. Essay by Curator, Carl E Hazlewood, April 2004. Available at the Thomas J. Watson Library, The Met, NYC, and the Stuart A. Rose Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

New Jersey, Star-Ledger
Sunday, April 25, 2004, “Guyanese Casts off Colonial Shadow” by Dan Bischoff

The New York Times
New NJ Edition, Sunday, May 30, 2004, “Picasso, Guyanese Jungles And A Robust Hybrid Art” by Benjamin Genocchio

The New York Times
Weekend Fine Arts Section, Friday, June 25, 2004, “Bending the Grid: Modernity, Identity and the Vernacular in the Work of Donald Locke” by Holland Cotter

ArtNet.Com Magazine Review
June 6, 2004, “African Mirror” by Miriam Brumer

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
September 26, 2004, “The Creative Process Demystified” by Catherine Fox

Back to Black, Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary
exhibition catalogue, June 2005, published by the Whitechapel Art Gallery and the New Art Gallery Walsall, with essays by Richard J. Powell, David A. Bailey, Petrine Archer-Straw

Art Review Magazine
London, June 2005, “Back to Black Supplement”, essay by Richard J. Powell

Tubman News
October/November/December 2005, “Recent Acquisitions” by The Tubman African American Museum

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
August 20, 2006, “Mini Retrospectives Track Four Artists’ Evolution” by Jerry Cullum

Art News
Wolverhampton, February 19, 2010, “First UK Solo Exhibition Since the 1970s by Donald Locke” by Conte

Out of Anarchy: Five decades of ceramics and hybrid sculptures
exhibit catalogue, 2011, published by Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ, by Donald Locke. Physical copies available at the Thomas J Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, and the Stuart A. Rose Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

The Art Section
August 2014, “Art Against the Wall” by Deanna Sirlin

Artist and Empire
exhibition catalogue, 2015, “Out of Empire” by Carole Jacobi

Un|Fixed Homeland
exhibition catalogue, July 23-September 23, 2016, Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art

New York Times
May 20, 2016, “Donald Locke, The Plantation Series: Paintings and Sculptures From the 1970s” by Holland Cotter

National Gallery Cayman
June 7, 2017, “TILTING AXIS Tiffany Boyle” presented by Tiffany Boyle

Caribbean Life News
November 24, 2017, “Guyanese Artists Explore Migration, Culture in Harlem Exhibition” by Tangerine Clarke

Afterall
September 30, 2018, “Retelling ‘The Other Story’ – Or What Now” by Lucy Steeds

Art UK
December 14, 2020, “Postcolonial art: eight artists addressing empire, colonial histories and black identities,” by Chloe Austin

Association for Art History 2021 Annual Conference
April, 2021, The Plantation Complex Panel, “Donald Locke: The Plantation Series,” by Giulia Smith, and “Volumetric Space and Donald Locke: Artist attempts to understand context,” by Tiffany C. Boyle

The Guardian
November 29, 2021, “Curator of Tate Caribbean-British exhibition says UK museums must face up to past” by Nadia Khomami

The Guardian
November 29, 2021, “Life Between Islands review: displaying the power and passion of Caribbean-British Art” by Nadia Khomami

The Art Newspaper
November 30, 2021, “As interest in artists of Caribbean heritage frows, Tate Britain show aims to create ‘landmark’ moment” by Anna Brady

Tate Britain
Exhibit Announcement, December 1, 2021, “Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now”

Tate Britain
Exhibit Guide, “Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now”

Tate Britain
Exhibit Trailer, December 14, 2021, “Life Between Islands | Trailer | Tate”

London on the Inside
December 1, 2021, “Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – NOW” by Christina

The Guardian
December 5, 2021, “Life Between Islands review – a mind-altering portrait of British Caribbean life through art” by Laura Cumming

FAD Magazine
December 7, 2021, “‘Life Between Islands’: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now at Tate Britain” by Lee Sharrock

Jenkins Johnson Gallery: FOG Art + Design
Announcement; Donald Locke’s Press Packet; Jenkins Johnson Gallery presented Donald Locke at FOG Design + Art, January 19-23, 2022, Fort Mason Center, San Fransisco, CA

Independent
March 11, 2022, “New exhibition explored black artists’ cultural influence in Scotland” by Katharine Hay

The Guardian
March 21, 2022, “‘A roaring carnival of humanity’: Hew Locke: The Procession review” by Adrian Searle

Tate Britain
Exhibition Announcement, March 22, 2022, “Tate Britain Commission, Hew Locke: The Procession”

Tate Britain
Video, May 3, 2022, “Hew Locke- Let’s make something positive’ | Tate”

The New York Times
December 31, 2022, “36 Hours in London” by Desiree Ibekwe; Print Version here

The Art Newspaper
February 16, 2023, “Women artists will gain space at Tate Britain as museum rehangs collection,” by Gareth Harris

Guyana SPEAKS
September 29, 2023, “Beyond the Black Box,” Presentation by Dr. Guilia Smith; Note: Donald Locke WAS NOT colorblind.

University of Edinburgh Art Collection
2023, “New Acquisitions, 2023.” 

theartsection: An Online Journal of Art and Cultural Commentary
n.d., “Donald Locke: An Appreciation,” by Deanna Sirlin

This is Atlanta with Alicia Steele
n.d., “Donald Locke, Artist” by PBA30 Atlanta’s PBA Station

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