Doug Wada "Americana"

Marlborough (Midtown)

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Wada extracts elements from the everyday and presents hyper-real, full-scale painting interpretations. He selects banal objects such as coolers, barber poles, and turnstiles, and suspends them on a white background, providing the opportunity to contemplate the true meaning of these familiar and often ignored elements of our lives. While these paintings create a nearly trompe l’oeil effect at first glance, when examined closely the lustrous, velvety brushstrokes create a surprisingly sensuous surface. This sumptuousness is apparent in the painting Unleaded, in which Wada bestows upon a fuel pump a richly mottled exterior with ripples of indigoes, purples, and golden yellows.

Working from the digital images he’s both shot and edited, Wada paints many of the objects in his works life-size. The canvases are hung at the height of the object in real life, and he applies the corresponding perspective to the object. For example, the work Normandie, featured in the exhibition, depicts a row of four American-made vintage hair dryers. To provide an authentic appearance, a separate canvas is devoted to each hair dryer, which is painted to scale at 17 inches tall and 14 inches wide, and each hair dryer is hung 14 inches apart, as they would be in a hair salon.

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from January 11, 2012 to February 11, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-01-11 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Doug Wada

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