Gavin Perry: Toe to Toe

Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce Toe to Toe, a solo-exhibition by internationally known Miami based artist Gavin Perry, opening Friday, June 3, 2016 with an artist’s reception from 6:30 – 8:30pm. This exhibition is on view through July 9, 2016.

In his exhibition, Toe to Toe, Gavin Perry continues his practice of process-based abstraction using synthetic materials, such as pigmented resin and vinyl pin stripping, with notable additions. By examining dialogues in dualities, analog versus digital, control versus chaos, Toe to Toe, reveals the fight that occurs during Perry’s painting process.

Rigid geometric abstraction battles organic, whimsical pours in not so much a pugilistic bludgeoning but in a rather choreographed dance, a martial art. The pours are more controlled and iconic in nature, while the palette has expanded to include muted milky colors and vibrant neon hues.

Perry’s once monochrome backgrounds give way to soft fades of color which are juxtaposed by hard edged lines of vinyl. Gravity is at once heavy and defined as its law is obliterated by floating, light but dense gestures. Agro-mathematical stripes are subverted by flaccid, elongated pours. Each opposition occupies it’s place in a standoff of sorts.

In Toe to Toe, the language is not about winning, but finding harmony in discord.

About the Artist:

Gavin Perry was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1971, and currently lives and works in Miami.  Perry’s exhibitions include Frederic Snitzer, Miami, Florida; Galerie Sultana, in Paris, France; Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland; White Box, New York; and Buamet Sultana Gallerie in Mexico City and Paris, France.  P

erry was awarded the prestigious South Florida Cultural Consortium which included an exhibition at the University Galleries of FAU.  His work has been reviewed by Flash Art, Art in America, Art Papers, and, in 2011, The Art Economist named Perry an Artist to Watch.

For more information, please contact Barbara Davis Gallery at 713.520.9200  or [email protected].

Pictured: Gavin Perry, Untitled, 2016, pigmented resin and vinyl on panel, 72 x 96 inches (detail above, full image below).