18 Black Artists Showcased Their Powerful Work Front and Center at the US Open

Delano Dunn is an artist from Los Angeles who explores questions of racial identity and perception through paint, mixed media, and collage. Dunn's subjects range from the personal to the political, and his work "Lights Keep Fading" is a tribute to the legacy of civil rights activists and the importance of Black lives.

"As a kid growing up in 1980s South Central Los Angeles, outer space was a beacon to me," Dunn said. "Space travel meant discovery, it meant learning something new about ourselves and our world. Signifiers of the American space race, both distinctive and obscure, find their way into much of the work I make not only because of this personal significance, but because of the simultaneity of this part of American history with our Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s."