Signature Verso, signed in silver pen, center: Demond Melancon
Inscription Verson, printed on label, top-right on support: ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY / Demond Meleancon / Fats Domino, 2018 / Glass breads on canvas / 11 ¼ x 7 ½ inches / 15 ¾ x12 1/2 inches framed (DM) / 432 Julia Street | New Orleans, LA 70130 / 504-522-1999 | www.arthurrogergallery.com
Verso, printed on label, lower-central on support: DEMOND MELEANCON (1978 -) is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist and performer with extensive roots in the Black Masking Culture of New Orleans. With a career spanning almost three decades, Melancon is well-known for his meticulous hand-sewn beadwork used to create massive Mardi Gras Indian suits which are composed of intricately beaded patches depicting actual and imagined events from African and American history. His complex and multidimensional portrayals tell powerful stories from his experience of the African diaspora.
Provenance Dealer Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana; purchased by Jack and Rebecca Drake, Birmingham, Alabama, in 2019; gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2021
