Dean Byington "Black Maps"
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
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A sense of discovery and dislocation exists in Dean Byington’s newest landscape-based paintings. Composed of a dense profusion of original and appropriated images, they envelope the viewer in an enigmatic narrative that hovers between science fiction, mythology and autobiography. Titled after a poem by Mark Strand, this is our third one-person exhibition of works by the artist.
Architecture and a newly complex transformation of pictorial space appear within the characteristic horror vacui of Byington’s visual lexicon. Diagrammatic houses shelter urban landscapes within their rooftops. Cities are seen, containing multiple staircases, historical buildings, windmills, stone walls, towers and monuments. People turn handles and climb into mysterious machines. Step back and the view shifts to ancient landscapes with more buildings, waterfalls and craggy peaks.
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from November 04, 2010 to December 23, 2010