Gareth Fuller is an artist and explorer. He walks hundreds of miles to create vast, hand-drawn portraits of place. From London and Beijing to Pyongyang and Washington, D.C., his work reveals stories and identities of landscapes, capturing their personal, geographical, and social essence in what he calls ‘maps of the mind.’
Solo exhibition: Walking the World
September 9th - December 18th
Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook, New York.
Discover more here.
The first North Korean female pilot is depicted flying through the air. I was told she had dinner with Kim Il Sung in a hidden bunker, inside a wooded valley. Legend has it that black dragons also once lived in the valley, and that they danced in the white clouds.
A local nickname for Washington’s elite, the “cave dwellers” were members of wealthy, influential families who had lived in the capital for multiple generations. Seldom seen and mostly known only to each other, the cave dwellers came to prominence in the roaring ‘20s for their exclusive high-society gatherings.
Sis’s Tavern in North Brentwood, MD, has been a beloved community hub for over 100 years. The building was leased to Marie “Sis” Walls in the 1950s who ran it as a tavern, hosting legends like Duke Ellington and Pearl Bailey, who both made stops at Sis’s after playing segregated shows in Washington, D.C..
