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DARRENVALERIE WATERSTON REMOTE FUTURES JAUDON OCTOBER 4 – NOVEMBER 3, 2012

February 13 – March 15, 2014 OPENING RECEPTION OCTOBEROpening Reception 4, 6 – 8 PM Thursday, February 13 6:30 – 8:00 pm AcataloguewithanessaybyJimVoorhies will be available . Agony in the Garden, 2012. Oil on wood panel, 36 x 36 inches.

Verbatim, 2007. Oil on linen, 72 x 72 inches

DC MOORE GALLERY is pleased to present its first exhibition by Darren Waterston, Remote Futures. ThisDC recentMoore body Gallery of work is pleased explores to the announce allure and that menace we now of represent utopian fantasy,Valerie where Jaudon an .imagined, A selection idealized of her paradise holdsfrom 2007 within-2013 it a willdisconcerting be on view infuture. our project gallery from February 13 – March 15, 2014.

Waterston has often engaged with mythological, theological, and natural histories while proposing visual depictions During this period Jaudon has extensively explored the possibilities offered by with black and white. The of the ineffable that transcend the picture plane. In Remote Futures, there is evidence of human life in the fragments ofpaintings architecture on view—temples, are executed cathedrals, with the ziggurats, artist’s well bridges-known— combinationthat emerge of fromclarity, the structural organic complexity, detritus. These subtle scenes evokereference, places and of scrupulous refuge, offering attention an to escape surface, from light, the and processes paint handling. of time Working and mortality. with a focused For Waterston, vocabulary however, of utopiancrisply edgedpotential (but is lushlyuntenable textured) as such. linear With forms, abstracted set against eleme eithernts rawthat linenare both or a corporealpainted ground, and celestial, Jaudon Waterston’s puts into scenesplay a remarkably become simultaneously evocative and Edenic diverse and lexicon dystopian. of shape, rhythm, and space. A thick, single, uninterrupted white line might wind through the painting, as in Logos, or a continuous black line could display itself in a series of Waterston’s formal approach complements his thematic interest in divergence. His painterly technique is drawn from intricately interlocking modules, as it does in Between or Iambic. Other paintings, such as Verbatim, play off long, both the Italian Renaissance—he layers oils and viscous glazes over gessoed wood panels—and traditional Japanese paintingcurving compound methods such lines as with calligraphic short, almost brushwork. staccato Theselinear bursts. moments Jaudon's of technical paintings precision, are invariably however, musical are no – soonerfugue- perceivedlike, ornamental than they and arecontrapuntal, obscured. butThe leavened resulting withethereal controlled visions dissonance. evoke both And distant like pastsmusic, and their fantastical structure futures.yields both the reward of prolonged contemplation and the pleasure of immediate visceral experience. Darren Waterston lives and works in New York, NY. His work is featured in permanent collections including Los AngelesDuring the County course Museum of Jaudon's of Art, distinguished CA; Seattle Artforty Museum,-year career, WA; she and has Museum been committed of Fine Arts, to Houston,redefining TX. the Waterston’s parameters upcoming projects include an editioned, large-format print portfolio commissioned by the Fine Arts Museums of of abstraction. A member of the original Pattern and Decoration group, she is a representative of important San Francisco, to be published in conjunction with an exhibition in May 2013. MASS MoCA will also host a major installationtendencies byof Waterstonthe larger Postminimal in the fall ofist 2013. movement. Jaudon was the driving force behind the influential 1991 Sidney Janis Gallery exhibition, Conceptual Abstraction (reprised and expanded in 2012 in an exhibition in the Times Square Galleries, curated by Pepe Karmel and Joachim Pissarro) and has continued to work toward DC Moore Gallery specializes in contemporary and twentieth-century art. The gallery is open Tuesday through the development of a grammar of abstraction. Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm. Press previews can be arranged prior to the exhibition. For more information, for photographs, or to arrange a viewing, please contact Meg Bowers at [email protected]. Jaudon is the recipient of numerous awards and grants and her work has been collected by and exhibited in major museums. Among them are The , New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; National Gallery, Washington DC; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Städel Museum, , Germany; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaeck, Denmark; Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, , Germany.

Jaudon has also completed a number of highly regarded public projects. Of particular note are works at The Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Städel Museum, Frankfurt; Thomas F. Eagleton United States Courthouse, St. Louis, Missouri; Reagan National Airport, Washington DC; Manhattan Municipal Building, New York; MTA Lexington Avenue Subway, 23rd Street, New York.

ALSO ON VIEW: JANET FISH: PANOPLY: February 13 – March 15, 2014

UPCOMING EXHIBITION: ROMARE BEARDEN: March 20 – April 19, 2014

*** DC MOORE GALLERY specializes in contemporary and twentieth-century art. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm. For more information, for photographs, or to arrange a viewing, please call 212-247-2111 or email [email protected].