"BECOMING VISIBLE TO MYSELF" BY TASANEE DURRETT VIA CREALDE SCHOOL OF ART. ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
Crealdé School of Art (Website) is presenting Sacred Vessels: Healing and Memory in the Black Diaspora, a major solo exhibition by Orlando multidisciplinary artist Tasanee Durrett, at the Hannibal Square Heritage Center in Winter Park.
The show marks Durrett’s first solo exhibition at the Heritage Center. According to the release, it draws on her background as a licensed architect, Durrett creates layered abstract figurative works that merge human forms with botanical imagery, architectural linework, and mixed-media. The exhibition centers on the head and neck as sacred vessels of ancestral memory, exploring how environmental knowledge, cultural identity, and psychological restoration are interconnected.
“Central Florida has been such fertile ground for my work lately, and there’s a real hunger here for art that goes deep, that holds space for complexity and healing,” Durrett said. “I hope the work allows people to sit with their own stories of memory, loss, and resilience, and to feel seen in them.”
Born in Chicago and based in Orlando, Durrett is currently featured in the Mennello Museum of American Art’s Our Orlando exhibition. Her work has been shown at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Orlando Museum of Art, the Mint Museum, and Art Basel Miami, among others. She has also completed public art commissions through the City of Orlando’s Bloomberg Philanthropies Art Pollination initiative.
The exhibition runs September 4 through December 13 with a free public opening reception on Friday, September 4, from 7 to 9 p.m. at 642 W. New England Avenue [GMap]. Admission is free.
