David Askew
Aunspaugh Fellow
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David Alston Askew is a Black, Queer painter from Virginia Beach, Virginia and is a current Aunspaugh fellow with the University of Virginia’s Art department. Their work is an exploration of self identity through abstract portraiture and is used as a tool for self reflection of how they perceive their sense of self and place in society.