May 9 - June 21, 2025
From Barbara Davis Gallery:
“Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce “Trippin’ Over the Ocean”, the eighth solo show by Danny Rolph celebrating twenty years with the gallery. The exhibition opens Friday, May 9, 2025 from 6pm to 8:30pm.
Danny has produced a new series of works on canvas for this exhibition that draws upon his particular memories: reshaping them into emotive painted compositions, emerging from recollections of his experiences in locations both real and imagined. This exhibition comprises paintings that span the last two years, made in London and Houston.
The title, Trippin’ Over the Ocean, comes from an immortal line in the 1967 Fred Neil song, Everybody’s Talkin’, made famous by Harry Nilsson. Over the years as an artist, Rolph has traveled and exhibited extensively across the world, often “across the ocean” in the USA.
Danny Rolph is well-known internationally for the spirit of his inquiry in painting. He creates amazing pictorially-exciting compositions that arouse curiosity and wonder through his unique use of color and belief in the power of visual discovery.
Born in London in 1967, Danny Rolph graduated with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 1993. Rolph has since gained international acclaim, exhibiting across the world, including solo exhibitions in New York, London, Houston, Milan, Brussels and Antwerp. The artist has been selected for many awards over his career, recently including the Mark Rothko residency award in 2022. Rolph was Rome scholar at The British School at Rome in 1998. His work features in many public and private collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Tate Gallery (London), National Gallery of Art (Reykjavik), Swindon art Museum (UK) and High Lanes Municipal Museum (Eire). Last year, he had a solo museum show in the Espacio del Convent de Santa Domingo, Pollensa, Mallorca, and is currently exhibiting in Linger at Hafnarborg museum in Iceland.”
Reception: May 9, 2025 | 6–8:30 pm
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