June 3 - 28, 2024
From Flex Gallery:
“Breath Complexum is an exercise in embracing messiness, making space for beauty as an emergent property of chaos. Building on her developing process of painting as self-dialogue, the work explores Sexton’s own discomfort with these ideas; acknowledging her desire for order and control as barriers to personal and transcendental connection. Breath Complexum offers a dialectic approach to reconciling this tension, in which progress and relapse, connection and isolation, indulgence and asceticism exist together in an endlessly complex landscape of humanness.
In these paintings, layers of hands and bodies are composited into complex compositions that toy with the relationship between positive and negative space, becoming allegories for relationships. Built-up layers of thick paint weave around these body-spaces, suffusing the work with a raw energy representative of the intensity of emotional and sensorial experience. Heavily influenced by painters such as Joan Mitchell and Cy Twombly, the work inches closer and closer to complete abstraction, leaving only the impressions of silhouettes of bodies to ground the dialogue in the present and the physical.
Artist Bio: Diana Sexton is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker working in Austin, TX. Inspired by all things anatomical, her work explores the interaction between the internal and embodied human experience. Sexton has exhibited in multiple galleries in central Texas, including McLennon Pen Co. Gallery, Lockhart Post Gallery, The Art Galleries at Austin Community College, and the Highland Collective Gallery, and has won numerous awards for her work.
Breath Complexum: A Solo Exhibition by Diana Sexton Exhibition Dates: June 3 – 28, 2024 Artist Reception: Wednesday, June 26, 5 to 7pm Gallery Hours: Mondays – Thursdays: 11am to 3pm, and Saturdays: 11 to 3pm Flex Gallery, Texas State University School of the Arts Joann Cole Mitte Building 233 West Sessom Drive”
Reception: June 26, 2024 | 5–7 pm
The University Galleries at Texas State University | Joann Cole Mitte Building
233 West Sessom Street
San Marcos, 78666 Texas
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