JULYAN DAVIS | American Ghosts

Opening, 5pm - 7pm Friday, April 26th - May 25th


Julyan Davis tells stories in paint. For the past 35 years he has painted America’s lost histories and vanishing landscape. From Appalachian ballads to the life of a Bonapartist exile in the Deep South, his touring museum shows (in collaboration with musicians, poets and historians) have focused on forgotten stories from across America: stories that simultaneously bring the past to life and remind us how much the past speaks to the present.

Davis’s current series ‘American Ghosts’ is something unusual in narrative art, bringing together his craft as both a painter and novelist. With no prior text, it is a journey of awakening written only in images. ‘American Ghosts’ follows the interweaving paths of three fictional women personifying key moments of American history; the Gold Rush, the Civil War and the Dustbowl. In this allegory of both the Gilded Age and Westward Expansion, the ghosts of Betsy, Belle and Nancy gather a caravan of outliers on their journey across history and the land herself. “My ghosts and I are on a path of discovery,” says Davis. “I’m eager to see what history will teach us next.”
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HARRIET YALE RUSSELL | For One Left Dreaming

A Tribute honoring the life and art of Harriet Yale Russell
1939-2023

Opening Friday March 29th, 5 -7pm trough April 20th

The innate desire to create, to explore intangible feelings through tangible means, and to realize complex visions and dreams in two dimensions are the guideposts that loosely delineated Harriet Yale Russell’s work as an artist.

At the reception of her last body of work, Listen to the Paint she said: “I’ve worked my whole life to find my own marks; the marks that are mine and mine alone. During the pandemic all I did was paint. I finally reached the point of knowing exactly what mark should be next to the last mark. I knew the right shape, the right color, the right thickness of the line. I knew exactly what to do next.”

And with that, Harriet Yale Russell left us to dream, to wonder, to admire deeply, after a lifetime of painting, the goal achieved of finding her unique mark-making. Though the work is done, the gifts made from her curiosity and persistence remain.
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