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Apr 03 - May 10 2025 - 23 days left

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is delighted to announce an upcoming exhibition of paintings by Maeve D’Arcy titled, Off the Record and Other Stories. This will be her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery and features paintings she created during her recent MacDowell fellowship. A site specific drawing and painting installation that the artist refers to as an “intervention” will also be on display. D’Arcy’s paintings chronicle observational musings through an intuitive practice of mark making and repetition. The work is intimately autobiographical and serves almost as a note to herself or a way to document a moment. She describes the process, “This new body of work represents an exploration of mark making as language. Shrines, to-do lists, snippets of conversations, and old photos act as an evolving manifesto of observation.” Hinting to her multitudes of influences, she titles each painting in playful and evocative ways. D’Arcy literally accounts time as she methodically lays down each line, dot, and shape. This practice mirrors her fleeting inspirations and immortalizes them within a static medium. As she works, these small repeated actions evolve into bold, richly detailed abstractions. Large sections of marks grow into rhythmic patterns that vibrate with energy. Unique palettes and energetic brushwork accompany the graphic elements and lend further to the lively spirit of the work. Detailed motifs cover the entirety of some paintings while others contain expanses of flat color, allowing for both busy and quiet moments. Upon closer inspection the imperfect, human touch of every mark is revealed.

Apr 10 - May 17 2025 - 30 days left

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce Jello Moon, an upcoming exhibition of new paintings by Zuriel Waters. This will be his second solo exhibition with the gallery and will feature his unique shaped and sewn paintings. Waters takes influence from his surroundings to create paintings which he constructs consecutively. He explains the importance of this as, “uncontained – each piece an iteration of the last, a record of gradual evolution in a species of forms whose needs, desires and limitations dictate to me their own way forward.” The paintings exude an animated presence as if depicting strange figures or unknown creatures. Playful and expressive titles add to the characterization of the work. With these most recent paintings, Waters began enlarging the pieces and exploring horizontal compositions. This transformed them and introduced a sense of place to the abstract forms. In his own words, “I see them as clouds—gestalt landscapes contained within their own borders, demi-gods of the troposphere.” They are at once a living being and landscape. Waters forms the bouncy, bold abstractions entirely out of sewn fabric and paint. The works are both geometric and fluid as each shape flows into the next creating a lively rhythm within their rounded bodies. Waters utilizes homemade dyes to achieve intensely saturated colors. He describes this ongoing exploration, “working to develop a method for pigment dyeing at home without high heat or chemicals—to fully enmesh color within the material, creating something durable (and potentially even washable) while still using strong, lightfast pigments. I want color to exist as close to the grain as possible.” Though the colors are generally flat, the surfaces of the various fabric substrates offer a consistent texture that adds depth to the vibrant segments. This along with the visible stitching makes his process evident. Cheerful and buoyant, the paintings feel as if they are floating in space.