The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents David-Jeremiah: The Fire This Time, organized by Guest Curator Christopher Blay.

The body of work on view in this exhibition is a group of vertical assemblages of black and other polychromatic paintings on shaped wood that form an installation. The twenty-eight works stand over ten feet tall. This primary configuration surrounds viewers completely.

Fire is a major motif in David-Jeremiah’s work. Figuratively, fire is the crucible through which the artist has passed. For his practice, David-Jeremiah conceived of binders full of work, operating in a conceptual space that defies any self-imposed rules made from the comfort of most artists’ studios. Birthing new modes of self-reflective determination and urgency, David-Jeremiah brings the fire this time, incinerating what has come before to propose something new. His maximalist approach to art-making feeds the flames and its towering paintings. This is a purifying, refining fire—a disruptive, controlled burn that course-corrects the trajectory of conceptualism. It is fire.