"Paul Gardère is a visual archaeologist, who, in his paintings, peels away the layers of history, with its brutality and poetry, and throws them back at the viewer. At first we look, and then he makes us see."

- curator Aléjandro Anreus
Picture
"Secret Language", 1999, 50 x 68 x 5 inches, acrylic, glitter, plaster on wood with paper insert. Collection of Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.