September 13 - November 16, 2024
From Inman Gallery:
“Inman Gallery is pleased to present Adrift, a solo exhibition of new work by Darren Waterston. Utilizing both galleries, the show features a suite of 12 paintings, 20 works on paper, and a site-specific mural installed in our south gallery. We welcome you to the gallery for an artist’s reception Friday, September 13, 6–8pm, followed by an exhibition walkthrough on Saturday, September 14, at 1pm.
Darren Waterston (b. 1965, Fresno, CA) creates atmospheric paintings that merge figurative and abstract styles, and allegorical and phenomenological meanings. Drawing inspiration from Odilon Redon and 19th century French Symbolism, as well as Byzantine painting methodologies, Japanese screen printing, aspects of Surrealism, and musicians including Debussy, Waterston creates richly layered, sensuous paintings, encouraging the viewer to sit with deep human emotions around love, loss and human endurance.
The exhibition’s title, Adrift, calls us towards the emotional sensations of being unmoored and untethered. With references to abstracted landscapes, wherein pictorial space is destabilized and ethereal, the works explore the sensory experience of floating outside the body, representing in-between states of dream and wake. At times terrestrial, marine or celestial, the atmospheres depicted feel humid, and thick, enveloping the viewer in a rich cloak of saturated color. Motion within these mysterious spaces are necessarily slow, akin to the measured movement of Tai Chi, or Qigong.
This is a momentous exhibition for the gallery; Adrift mark’s Waterston’s tenth solo show with Inman since 1998, and importantly, this exhibition will be our last at Isabella Court ahead of the gallery’s move into our new building this winter. Darren Waterston’s exhibition Chimera was the first show at Isabella Court in July 2004, in which he created a site-specific mural – a first for the gallery and the artist. It is an honor to welcome Darren back, 20 years later, as the coda to this chapter of Inman Gallery, a celebration of two decades of the gallery’s history and friendship with the artist. “
Reception: September 13, 2024 | 6–8 pm
On View: September 14, 2024 | 1–2 pm
Exhibition walkthrough
3901 Main Street
Houston, 77002 TX
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