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THE AMERICAN FUTURE by Abigail DeVille is a monumental installation, or as the artist puts it, "a model for reflection” comprised of foraged materials, publications, time, labor, up-rooted histories, politics, poetry, and research. In an attempt to form a new kind of space or landscape, DeVille takes us on a trip through time from 1804–2018.

The artist begins with Thomas Jefferson’s commission of the Lewis and Clark expedition and Monticello–his obsessive, forty-year labor of love–and speeds forward through the wreckage of this expansionist's desire to build legacy, home, plantation, and nation at the cost of the environment, the people, and the very ethics he purported. DeVille suggests that “the ideal he so eloquently crafted in the Declaration of Independence, that “All men are created equal”, never materialized in practice because of his fractured mind. His expansion and personal accumulation of wealth could never fit into the statement of democracy for the people, by the people.” (from Portland Institute for Contemporary Art)

D A N T E C A R L O S is an independent graphic and book designer. His projects include commissions for cultural institutions, spaces, artists, agencies, and local businesses.

He currently is based in Portland. For more information or inquiries, contact Dante at ddddd@dantecarlos.info

S E L E C T E D C L I E N T S The Aspen Institute, Armory Center for the Arts, Bloomberg View, Carnegie Institute of Art, CB2, Cherry and Martin, Coca-Cola Corporation, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Good Magazine, Institute of Contemporary Art (Miami), Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), Kurimanzutto, Kohler, Levi’s, Midway Contemporary Art, Motorola, MTV Networks, Museum of Arts and Design, M+, NBC/Telemundo, The New York Times, Sony, The Third Rail, Walker Art Center, UCLA