“Totally Suite” Exhibition

Maxwell Davidson Gallery/Davidson Contemporary

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Davidson Contemporary presents the summer exhibition Totally Suite, a group show featuring serial work from Nathan Catlin, Sam Messenger, Boo Saville, and Thomas Witte. Each artist has made a series of work and, though each individual work was made with its own intention, the collection of each presents a linear view of the artists’ manufacturing techniques and artistic vision.

Nathan Catlin’s work follows a fictional narrative arc and, whether a woodcut or painting, provides allegorical clues as to its meaning. Those meanings are manifold and emerge slowly and mysteriously out of the work, both singularly and as a set.

Sam Messenger’s suite of drawings uses only straight ruled lines to create the illusion of curved, even moving shapes. Relying only on the different angles and thickness of each line, Messenger’s small drawings achieve a mesmerizing effect.

Boo Saville’s watercolors can, at first, seem as though each is a single color. However, as the viewer spends time looking, the colors appear to fade in and out, and to shimmer as the transitions between hues subtly shift under Saville’s masterful hand.

Thomas Witte has based his suite on found 35mm slides of airports form the 1970s. The close-ups of anonymous groups of people waiting on the runway harken back to a more romantic time of air travel, while also pointing out the obsolescence of his source material.

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from July 07, 2016 to September 02, 2016

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