Event
Kai Samuels Davis: WildernessPost an Event »
Dolby Chadwick Gallery
October 6 - October 29, 2016Info
-
http://www.dolbychadwickgallery.com/
-
(415) 956-3560
Reception
October 6, 2016 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
The Wilderness II, Oil on panel, 36 x 36 in.
Dolby Chadwick Gallery is pleased to announce Wilderness, an exhibition of new paintings by Kai Samuels-Davis. The title is suggestive of the space captured in these works which include portraits, landscapes and still lifes. The majority of paintings included depict cropped, enlarged portraits arrived at through the application of a mark-making strategy employing repetition and layering of paint so that the figures are simultaneously familiar and mysterious. The solitary forms, of which the head and upper torso are visible, emerge from a vast darkness into a warm light, or vice versa, while others come forth from a solid color field. Whether a literal narrative of someone alone in the wild, or a metaphorical “wilderness” whereas the figure is alone with his or her own thoughts and feelings—the title of the exhibition alludes to both a physical and psychological space not unlike the solitude of an artist painting in his studio.