When he first conceived of “Nightsong,” Fordjour had no idea it would arrive at a time of erasure under the government’s anti-DEI measures.

Derek Fordjour, Banjo Lesson in Minor Key (after Henry Ossawa Tanner), 2025. Acrylic, charcoal, cardboard and oil pastel on newspaper mounted on canvas, 32 1/4 x 26 1/4 inches (81.9 x 66.7 cm).

An oil painting by Derek Fordjour titled Banjo Lesson in Minor Key (after Henry Ossawa Tanner) showing an older man and a child seated together as the man plays a banjo in a dimly lit interior.

At David Kordansky Gallery in LA, Derek Fordjour’s “Nightsong” in on through Oct. 11.

When he first conceived of “Nightsong,” Fordjour had no idea it would arrive at a time of erasure under the government’s anti-DEI measures.
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