NYAB Event - Shelton Walsmith "Day For Night"

Shelton Walsmith "Day For Night"

Causey Contemporary

This event has ended.

Artist statement: Often I wonder if it's what is lost I am looking for or if it's what is undiscovered that's the goal. Both situations compel a certain degree of vigilance in looking. It's easy to see what is lost and not so simple to recognize the unrealized. One way or another painting seems a vital and visceral conduit between the past and the present; between the known and the not. In this age of polarity I feel the artist's task is to extend the expanse between black and white; between opposing forces. Provisions must be laid out for a long range of sensations between the real and the mystical. Day For Night represents this practice; like a waking dream these paintings are the fractaling seconds between dawn and dusk and fact and fantasy and experiencing and remembering.

Shelton Walsmith is a multi-media artist working in the Gowanus Canal area of Brooklyn. His work has been published by The Paris Review, Knopf, Vintage, Rizzoli Books, Unsaid Magazine, New York Tyrant and others. He has exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Prague and Austin. Walsmith is the founder and host of the event series Yardmeter Editions.