DC M OORE GALLERY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 535 WEST 22ND STREET NEW YORK NEW YORK 10011 212 247.2111 DCMOOREGALLERY.COM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DARREN WATERSTON VALERIE JAUDON REMOTE FUTURES ALIGNMENTS OCTOBER 4 – NOVEMBER 3, 2012 September 10 – October 10, 2015 OPENING RECEPTION OCTOBER 4, 6 – 8 PM Opening Reception: September 10 AcataloguewithanessaybyJimVoorhies 6:00 – 8:00 PM will be available . Agony in the Garden, 2012. Oil on wood panel, 36 x 36 inches. Ostinato, 2014. Oil on linen, 78 x 78 inches, DC MOORE GALLERY is pleased to present its first exhibition by Darren Waterston, Remote Futures. DC ThisMoore recent Gallery body ofis workpleased explores to announce the allure Valerie and menace Jaudon’s of utopian forthcoming fantasy, exhibition, where an Alignmentsimagined, ,idealized a selection paradise of recent paintingsholds inwithin the main it a disconcerting gallery paired future.with a concentrated 40-year overview of drawings and works on paper in the project room. Jaudon's paintings – all variants of black, white, and the color of the linen or canvas support – continue to explore the Waterston has often engaged with mythological, theological, and natural histories while proposing visual depictions richly evocative arena of structural complexity, subtle reference, clarity of form, and restrained but lush brushwork. Her of the ineffable that transcend the picture plane. In Remote Futures, there is evidence of human life in the fragments regularizedof architecture linear forms,—temples, geome cathedrals,trically ordered ziggurats, yet crisply bridges hand—that-painted, emerge are fromset outthe in organic elaborately detritus. articulated These continuousscenes linesevoke which places wend theirof refuge, way across offering and an through escape each from painting.the processes Jaudon's of timestructural and mortality.investigations For Waterston,yield single however, fields, both denselyutopian packed potential or airy is untenableand open aswith such. no o Withvert mirroring,abstracted set elemes, ornts repetitions. that are bothSome corporeal resolve themselvesand celestial, into Waterston’s groupings of intertwinedscenes modulesbecome –simultaneously clearly laid out Edenic but perceptually and dystopian. ambiguous. Her paintings are ongoing dialogues between the part and whole, the elusive and the stable, the abstracted and the resolutely material. Common to all of the paintings (and pointedWaterston’s to in many formal of their approach titles) iscomplements their sense ofhis musicality. thematic interest Contrapuntal, in divergence. recursive, His ornamented, painterly technique and carefully is drawn dissonan from t, Jaudon'sboth thepainting Italians Renaissanceinvite contemplative—he layers analysis, oils and invoking viscous both glazes the overmusical gessoed scorewood and the panels experience—and traditional of listening. Japanese painting methods such as calligraphic brushwork. These moments of technical precision, however, are no sooner perceived than they are obscured. The resulting ethereal visions evoke both distant pasts and fantastical futures. Over the course of her career, Jaudon’s consistent voice has placed her in an especially vital position in the ongoing dialogueDarren on Waterston contemporary lives American and works art. in NewAn original York, NY.member His work of the is featuredPattern and in permanent Decoration collections group, she including is also Losclosely alignedAngeles with Countythe various Museum manifestations of Art, CA; Seattle of conceptualized Art Museum, WA; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. Waterston’s abstraction,upcoming exemplifying projects include those an editioned,ongoing large-formattendencies printin portfolio commissioned by the Fine Arts Museums of MinimaSanl and Francisco, Postminimal to be publishedart that made in conjunction this particular with way an exhibitionof in May 2013. MASS MoCA will also host a major thinkinginstallation culturally by and Waterston aesthetically in the relevant. fall of 2013. The DCselection Moore of Gallery works onspecializes paper on viewin contemporary, from 1973 to and present, twentieth-century art. The gallery is open Tuesday through underscoresSaturday thefrom variety 10 am and to 6con pm.sistency Press previewsof her approach. can be arranged prior to the exhibition. For more information, Jaudon'sfor photographs, work elucidates or to aarrange gramm aar viewing, of abstraction please thatcontact is Meg Bowers at [email protected]. identifiably hers – whether it be a monochrome painting, a richly colored one, an elaborate linear drawing, forms set on a washed field, or a large-scale public project executed in the widest possible range of materials – from tile and mosaics to pools, pavings, and gardens. Cremona, 2014. Oil on canvas, 60 x 84 inches, Jaudon is the recipient of numerous awards and grants. Her work has been collected by and exhibited in major museums, among them are The Museum of Modern Art, 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, Frankfurt, Germany; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaeck, Denmark; Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany. * * * DC MOORE GALLERY specializes in contemporary and twentieth-century art. The Gallery is open from 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]. .