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MILTON AVERY DARREN WATERSTON REMOTE FUTURES Selected Paintings OCTOBER 4 – NOVEMBER 3, 2012

OPENING RECEPTIONMay 1 – June 13, 2015 OCTOBER 4, 6 – 8 PM

AcataloguewithanessaybyJimVoorhies Garden Basket, 1949. Oil on canvasboard, 24 will be available. x 17 ¾ inches.

Agony in the Garden, 2012. Oil on wood panel, 36 x 36 inches.

Milton Avery (1885-1965) Milton Avery’s unique brand of modernism blends simplified figures and natural forms with abstractDC MOORE tonal planes. GALLERY Bridging is pltheeased gap between to present realism its firstand abstraction,exhibition byhe frequentlyDarren Waterston, used expressive, Remote unnatural Futures color. in reduced,This recent flattened, body of or work distorted explores compositions, the allure and but menacenever introduced of utopian elements fantasy, thatwhere did an not imagined, exist in the idealized real world. paradise His remarkableholds within color it a sensedisconcerting and chromatic future. harmonies of striking subtlety and invention provided a model for succeeding generations of American colorists.

Waterston has often engaged with mythological, theological, and natural histories while proposing visual depictions Whenof the he ineffable moved that to New transcend York City the in picture 1925, Avplane.ery encountered In Remote Futures a range, there of art is not evidence previously of human available life toin himthe fragmentswhile living in Hartford,of architecture Connecticut.—temples, He regularly cathedrals, went ziggurats,to museum bridges and gallery—that exhibitions, emerge from where the he organic absorbed detritus. the techniques These scenes of Europeanevoke places modernism. of refuge, In 1935, offering he beganan escape exhibiting from withthe theprocesses promine ofnt Valentinetime and Gallerymortality. on For57th Waterston, Street, which however, represented Henriutopian Matisse potential and isother untenable leading as European such. With and abstracted American elemeartists.nts Over that the are next both seven corporeal years, and his celestial,work displayed Waterston’s an increasingscenes become concern simultaneously with abstraction Edenic and nuancedand dystopian. color.

InWaterston’s 1943, Avery formal had hisapproach first solo complements museum exhibition his thematic at the interestPhillips inMemorial divergence. Gallery His in painterly Washington, technique DC. That is drawn same from year, he joinedboth the the Italian prestigious Renaissance Paul Rosenberg—he layers Gallery oils and in viscousNew York, glazes which over was gessoed associated wood with panels renowned—andtraditional members Japaneseof the European avantpainting-garde, methods including such Pablo as calligraphic Picasso, Georges brushwork. Braque, These and moments Ferdinand of Leger, technical while precision, also representing however, well are- noknown sooner Americanperceived artists than theylike Max are obscured.Weber and The Marsden resulting Hartley. ethereal Two visions years later, evoke with both exhibitions distant pasts of his and work fantastical there and futures. also at Durand-Ruel, another important gallery on 57th Street with origins in Paris, a critic wrote, “After remaining unnoticed for a Darren Waterston lives and works in New York, NY. His work is featured in permanent collections including Los good many years Milton Avery has of late become a sort of institution.” Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Seattle Art Museum, WA; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. Waterston’s

Asupcoming Avery’s focus projects on color include and an simplified editioned, shapes large-format became printincreasingly portfolio intense commissioned in the 1950s, by the he Finecontinued Arts Museumsto move towards of denser,San Francisco, more subtly to be modulated published areas in conjunction of flattened with color. an By exhibition the end inof Maythe decade, 2013. MASS in the MoCAwake of will a reevaluation also host a majorof Abstract installation by Waterston in the fall of 2013. Expressionism, his innovative use of abstract tonal planes and reductive shapes was recognized as a foundation of Color Field painting. A retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1960 was well received, and favorable articles appearedDC Moore in Galleryseveral specializesmajor publications, in contemporary including Timeand twentieth-centurymagazine. Mark Rothko art. The and gallery Adolph is Gottlieb open Tuesday were among through the many artistsSaturday who fromacknowledged 10 am to a6 profoundpm. Press debt previews to his work. can Afterbe arranged painting independentlyprior to the exhibition. for forty years, For more Avery’s information, achievements for photographs, or to arrange a viewing, please contact Meg Bowers at [email protected]. had finally established him as one of the leading painters of the twentieth century.

* * * 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 Lily Zhou at [email protected].