| NORWOOD FLYNN GALLERY // MAR 6 // 6 - 8.30PM |
| Gallery Information: Norwood Flynn Gallery - Sue Flynn, Owner 3318 Shorecrest Dallas, Texas 75235 214-351-3318 www.norwoodflynngallery.com |
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| The Norwood Flynn Gallery is please to announce a solo exhibition of work by Andrew DeCaen, opening Saturday, March 6, 2010 with an artist’s reception from 6:00-8:30 pm, and running through Saturday, March 27, 2010. This exhibition by Andrew, a lithographer and assistant professor of art at University of North Texas, will show work inspired by sonogram images. The exhibit will include large drawings, small lithographs, small etchings and several transitory drawings on gallery glass windows done with dry erase markers. All shows are free and open to the public. The public may call 214-351-3318 or visit www. norwoodflynngallery.com for information. Andrew DeCaen Artist Statement: Sonogram Drawings/Premature Guessing: Looking at a sonogram image can be like looking through a perforated screen. The image of a child may become perfectly clear in a moment, then lost in static in the next. Before my daughter was born her placenta partially detached form the uterus, and as a result many sonograms were made to monitor her progress. In response to these images I began a series of prints and drawings that explore this concept of thinking about the unknown while looking at coded or veiled information. In these works an equally familiar and confusing object is a surrogate for the pre-born child, and peripheral information seeks to attract a sense of context. In all of these images there is an interest in the absurd, the unnoticed, the unfathomable, and an unconscious wisdom. This body of work is a re-investment in the process of drawing as thinking. With each of these images I try to generate questions instead of making statements. I try to work in a state that oscillates between resolving clarity of form and ambiguity of meaning. The large drawings and stone lithographs are achieved through layers of methodical marks, appropriated patterns, and veils of translucent color. In several of these prints I have collaborated by drawing the image with my daughter to introduce a dialog of different marks and unpredictability. The lithographs are also the raw source material for collages that aim to rethink or re-intuit the idea by recombining elements in provocative ways. These images explore my subconscious hopes, fears, musings, and observations; the work is always one step ahead of my near comprehension. While these images are specifically compelling to my personal experience and relationships, they also aim to be a curious space to provoke the precarious quality of looking into a place where questions are born. |
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