The prints in Pyramid Atlantic Art Center’s current show are credited to David C. Driskell (1931-2020), a local African American artist and scholar. But the show is titled “A Collaboration of Creativity” because it exhibits artworks made with printer Curlee Raven Holton, founder of Pennsylvania’s Raven Editions. The two worked together from 2003 until Driskell’s death.

The prints are listed primarily as serigraph, also known as silk-screen, or relief, which includes woodcut and linocut. Most depict people, sometimes distilled to masklike faces, and often framed by or even immersed in foliage. The other subjects include a few near-abstract nature scenes and an owl rendered in bold black lines overprinted with areas of arboreal brown and tan.

“Owl’s” schema is typical of these pictures. Some are monochromatic, with robust areas of black. Most of the others are defined by the same line-oriented style, but smartly complemented by one or more additional colors. A few pairings present the same image with and without the added hues, or with different color schemes. Although such works as “Accent of Autumn” and “Yoruba Couple” are as boldly colorful as paintings, chiseled black strokes are the bones of Driskell’s printmaking style.

A Collaboration of Creativity: Print Work of David C. Driskell Through March 19 at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, 4318 Gallatin St., Hyattsville, Md.

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