Owen Drysdale: Hot Summer Deadly Day
- When
- July 14, 2016
- Where
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Barbara Davis Gallery
4411 Montrose Blvd
Houston,Tx 77006 - Cost
- Free and open to the public.
Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce Hot Summer Deadly Day, a solo-exhibition by emerging artist Owen Drysdale opening Friday, July 15th, 2016 with an artist’s reception from 6:00 – 8:00pm. This exhibition is on view through September 2, 2016.
In the exhibition, Hot Summer Deadly Day, Owen Drysdale presents new paintings inspired by memories and associations of a Texas town in the heavy heat of summer. Familiar faces and vast landscapes are used as a point of departure in an inner dialogue.
A dialogue on how observed actions and past experiences become emblematic of a particular time in an individual’s life. Associations such as the lush hues of mulberries muddled on the bottom of your shoe, the sweltering heat of long summer days, and a well-pruned oleander’s intrusive shape and it’s ability to occupy space, inspire his compositions.
In Owen’s practice, painted gestural marks assume new identities; suggest new possibilities and describe a sudden fact. Each mark has infinite possibility for personal meaning. Although Owen’s paintings are made in reference to individual experience they exist as open signifiers where others might find time and space for themselves.
About The Artist
Owen Drysdale lives and works in Syracuse, New York. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Texas State University, San Marcos, and he is currently working towards his Master of Fine Arts from Syracuse University, New York. Drysdale is currently in the Syracuse University MFA Artist in Residence Program in London. He has exhibited at Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas, and the Joann Cole Mitte Gallery I & II at Texas State University, including an exhibition juried by Claudia Schmuckli, director and chief curator at the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston. His work has been featured in New American Paintings, The Houston Chronicle, Modern Dallas, and The Austin American Statesman.
Pictured: Owen Drysdale, Untitled, 2016, oil on canvas, 60 x 54 inches (detail above, full image below).
