Levon Riggins: “Banquet”
Opening Reception May 9, 6pm - 9pm
Statler Waldorf Gallery is thrilled to present Levon Riggins: “Banquet”.
The exhibition will run from May 9th - June 6th, 2026 with an opening reception May 9th, 6-9pm.
In portraits, scenes from domestic life,
public and private encounters, streetscapes and imagined revelries, Levon Riggins renders the Black body powerful, elegant, extraordinary, regal and central. A self-taught artist, his painting and drawing demonstrate a visionary artistic voice that emerged seemingly fully formed. In Riggins’s words: “The Black figure is never neutral. It is shaped by projection, where the body is read through inherited scripts before it is ever truly encountered. I want to disrupt the ease with which the figure is consumed and insist the viewer look again, more carefully, making space for a presence that cannot be easily defined.”