Almine Rech is pleased to present Xavier Daniels’ first solo show with the gallery, on view from May 14 to June 11, 2022. 

Xavier Daniels’ paintings are influenced by his experiences with brotherhood at both Morehouse and as a firefighter. He paints black male figures to create dialogue concerning issues like black male stereotypes and Black Lives Matter. According to Daniels, the conversations happening in popular culture about black males leave them invisible in discussions about themselves. The portraits of black men Daniels creates are large in an effort to symbolically assert black male presence into those conversations. Expanding the personages associated with black men as merely athletes, sex symbols, absentee fathers, and thugs, his goal is to give the world a different look at black men.