Antony Densham “Unearth”

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts

poster for Antony Densham “Unearth”
[Image: Antony Densham "C16.2021" (2021) acrylic on canvas 29 x 29 in. Courtesy of Kathryn Markel Fine Arts]

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Kathryn Markel Fine Arts presents Unearth by Antony Densham. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The show will be on view from January 6th to February 12th.

Antony Densham lives in New Zealand, a country well known for its spectacular terrain. It’s not surprising that the landscape has found its way into Densham’s work, however implied and abstracted. With respect to the relationship between abstraction and figuration Densham says, “The marks are both independent gestures but also acknowledge the brain’s tendency to search for representation. I’m looking for this middle ground, to confound the space somehow through the interchange of revealing and concealing.” Densham’s strata-like paint strokes evoke an archaeologist’s tool marks and that what was discovered; the gestures combined with the palette of rich tones also become entities unto themselves. The faceting of the vista into a pattern of planes illustrates the painter’s quiet attentiveness to both his process and to his surroundings.

Antony Densham earned his BFA and Postgraduate Diploma of Fine Arts from the University of Aukland. Mr. Densham has been a selected finalist in the James Wallace Art Awards, the NZ Paintings and Printmaking Award, the Molly Morpeth-Canaday Art Award, and in 2018 won the Merit Award at the National Small Sculpture Prize. In 2011 he won the New Zealand Art and Faith Award. He has exhibited in New Zealand, Austria, China and New York.

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from January 06, 2022 to February 12, 2022

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Antony Densham

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