Recent Works
October 16 – November 27, 1999
In his latest exhibition at the Charles Cowles Gallery, DARREN WATERSTON continues his exploration of the expressive possibilities of abstracted organic forms to communicate spiritual ideas. WATERSTON’s most recent paintings give new dimension to this pursuit by incorporating figural references into the dreamlike landscapes for which he is best known. The resulting meditative environments contain beautifully ordered forms that seem at first pleasing to the eye, but reveal upon closer inspection their more savage natures. Drawing influence from classical form, the lyrical imagery of romanticism, and the aesthetic sensibility of early Renaissance painters like Hieronymous Bosch, WATERSTON creates distinctly contemporary oil paintings, remarkable at once for their technical refinement and the weightiness of their underlying subject matter. In these most recent works, the spiritual tension that lay dormant in his earlier paintings seems to rise to the surface, allowing us a slightly larger window into the artist’s edgy vision.
DARREN WATERSTON has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Canada, and is currently the subject of a one-man show at the Fresno Art Museum, on view through October 31. His work is represented in major private and public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, and the Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA.
The exhibition will be on view at the Charles Cowles Gallery’s interim location at 74 Grand Street, between Greene and Wooster Streets in SoHo. Hours are 10am to 6pm, Tuesday through Saturday.
For further information or photographs, please
contact the gallery at 212/925-3500. Catalogues of recent works are available.