MFA SUNY Albany
BS Art and Design, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Darian Longmire is a mixed media artist based in Brooklyn, NY. After moving from the Midwest to the Northeast, he began to combine his print based work exploring physics, philosophy and outer space with wider ideas about time and space, linking science fiction with techno-culture. Rather than using cultural identity as a driving force for his practice, he chooses to articulate the dichotomy of blackness through invisible matter, black holes and time warps. His visual language has formed through years of studying digital processes, drawing, printmaking and design. His work re-appropriates and remixes satellite images from NASA to create a world of abstraction, and his recent practice has been impacted by what he describes as living through a time distortion. Exhibitions include “Yelling at the sky,” at The Gaylord & Donnelley Foundation in Chicago, “Time Camp,” curated by Black Quantum Futurism at Icebox Projects in Philadelphia, and “What is leaping in your chest?” Collar Works Gallery in Troy, NY, among others.
