David Driskell: Wake Up Everybody

The biggest picture in the room is The Ancient Watch (1975): a hazy white landscape with masked faces bunched in the middle. The Daily Californian's reviewer found that it "follows the viewer around the room." Driskell kept African masks in his studio to "live in their presence", and here they do the watching.

Driskell is better known for other people's art: he curated Two Centuries of Black American Art at LACMA in 1976 and taught for nearly 40 years. This show hangs his own, from 1960 to the early 2000s, in paint, collage, encaustic and prints. You walk from Maine birches to African mask forms to Mount St. Helens erupting. The title is the 1975 Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes song, for its line "Wake up all the teachers."

The reviewer called it "a fitting tribute" to a man who spent his life making space for others. Entry is free at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, suite 200 of Minnesota Street Project, Tuesday to Saturday until 19 December.