"Same Sweet Dream" Exhibition
Dieu Donné
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"Same Sweet Dream" features work by Dawn Clements, Bruce Davenport, Brent Green, Timothy Wehrle, and Purvis Young created on Dieu Donné paper. Curator Martina Batan selected a specific type of handmade paper to compliment and inspire each artist's individual sensibilities, resulting in unique work which highlights the dialogue between the artist and the paper. The new works produced by these artists demonstrates handmade paper’s ability to serve as a highly personal medium. The artists included in this exhibition have each experienced the contradiction of paper as both a banal material and one used for art-making. In exploring these shared tendencies, the artists create work on copy paper, ledger paper, discarded invoices, napkins, and other detritus of the modern world, which also highlights the spontaneity and prolific nature of their practice. The paper’s character unifies with the artist’s drawing, as dates, numbers, notations, and other ephemera already present on the found sheet are integrated with the composition. This is exemplified in Timothy Wehrle’s nigh devotional drawings on vintage notebook pages from his grandfather’s stationary store, the gestural, sinewy figures of Purvis Young drawn with house paint on discarded hardcover text books, office forms, folders and found objects, and Dawn Clements’ intricate interior spaces on assembled and folded stock. The scale of self-taught artist Bruce Davenport’s drawings is imposed by the poster board available at local hardware stores, while Brent Green constructs sets populated with paper maché puppets and props for his stop animation shorts. All have an intimate relationship with the paper in use.
[Image: Timothy Wehrle "The New Caucasian Crusade at the Moxibustion Clinic (detail)" (2008) watercolor and graphite on handmade paper. Courtesy of Cavin-Morris Gallery.]
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Schedule
from January 09, 2009 to February 14, 2009