Donald Henry

Donald Henry
 1966 - 2009

About Donald
Donald Henry maintained a very limited but striking body of images. He drew portraits that took on the appearance of robots. Early in his career he would assign each rendition a unique number across a chest plate; this was thought to represent the individuals who were in his life while he was institutionalized, but while Henry worked at V&V it soon became evident that the numbers were meant to distinguish between the many significant people in his life. He drew the people most familiar and closest to him. The figures were male or female and easily recognized as such. The other iconic image that Henry often rendered was a building that could represent a house or a restaurant that he liked to frequent. After moving to a group home setting and becoming involved in work enclaves, the value of Donald Henry?s work become more apparent. The V&V studio at Tri-county was established with him as the inspiring artist, and as such, he was the first artist at the new studio in the spring of 2007. Donald departed this life in 2009 and is greatly missed by the staff and artists that he worked with at Visionaries and Voices.


Exhibitions
Donald Henry's works were exhibited widely in V&V studio and galleries, most recently in the V&V Northside exhibit "Abstract Trances."