February 20 - April 9, 2016
Craven Allen Gallery
Durham, NC

Opening Reception
5-7 PM, Saturday, February 20, 2016

Also showing: Duke University advanced painting students.



Beverly McIver is Esbenshade Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. She is widely acknowledged as a significant presence in contemporary American art and has charted a new direction as an African American woman artist. She is committed to producing art that examines racial, gender, social and occupational identity. Her sister Renee is a frequent subject of the artist, as well as other family members.

Her work is in the collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, N.C., the Baltimore Museum of Art, the NCCU Museum of Art , the Asheville Museum of Art, The Crocker Art Museum, The Nasher Museum, and the Nelson Fine Arts Museum on the campus of Arizona State University.

McIver’s work has been reviewed in Art News, Art in America The New York Times and a host of local newspapers. She has received numerous grants and awards including the Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation grant, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard University, a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation award, a distinguished Alumni Award from Pennsylvania State University, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and Creative Capital grant.