纽约展览 | “家” 达瑞尔·韦斯特利 Darryl Westly 个展

展览简介   

Crossing Art 画廊荣誉呈献达瑞尔·韦斯特利Darryl Westly 个展《家》，该展览以一系列绘画作品探索“家”的深层意涵——这不仅是一场个人内心的旅程，更是一种具有普遍共鸣的人类归属感的象征。Westly 凭借对绘画技法的精湛掌控，巧妙地将熟悉与超越融为一体，作品中弥漫着独特的诗意与沉思。通过色彩斑斓的构图，艺术家将人类共有的归属感与记忆的本质呈现于画布之上，在那片片未曾着色的亚麻布中，空白与意象交织，留下无尽遐想。

在《家》这组作品中，Westly 将“家”作为集体经验的象征符号进行重新诠释。他通过描绘那些不具象的室内空间，引导观者反思何为“家”的真正意义。作品中复杂的空间布局将观者置于画作的主体位置，促使人们追溯自身对舒适与温暖的记忆与情感联结。Westly 通过解构早期记忆中的片段，重建了他在芝加哥南区成长过程中对“家”的独特印象，作品探讨了在多元文化背景下，安逸与宁静的微妙关系。他坦言：“沙发与餐桌代表了家的两大核心：休息与滋养，这是生命得以延续与成长的基石。”

Crossing Art is proud to announce 'Home,' a solo exhibition showcasing paintings by Darryl Westly, exploring the nature of Home as an ever-unfolding journey — one deeply personal yet resonating with a universal connection to the core of human belonging. Through an intentional, targeted mastery of paint, Westly's unique note of both familiarity and transcendence resonates across this collection. Our shared human quest for belonging, and the very nature of memory, are explored in kaleidoscopic renderings of universally recognized human comforts — and suspended in swaths of untouched linen.

'Home' is presented as an icon of the collective human experience; Westly considers what signifies a home through interiors sans figuration. The intricate weavings of Westly's space situate and integrate the viewer as a subject, inviting rumination on one's associations with comfort and warmth. The artist's profound effort to disassemble early memories rebuilds elements of his South Chicago upbringing, which discuss the complex nature of leisure and peace within a diverse society. In his own words, “the couch and table represent two pillars of what makes a home: rest and sustenance, a necessary means for growth and supporting life.”

展览中的无意识元素最为鲜明地体现在那些引导观者目光游移于梦幻般的抽象景象与违背常理但自成结构的花卉之间。Westly 的复杂花卉图案通过数字图像的层层叠加与再创作，似乎有意唤起人们对早期电脑桌面背景的集体怀旧情感，那些静谧且富有美感的图像为作品赋予了一种静止的优雅。这种怀旧感跨越时空，唤起了我们对最初数字时代的共同记忆。

正如钻石吸引着人类天生对清澈水源的向往，Westly 的作品通过引发我们对“家”的普遍感知，传递出关于人类团结与希望的深刻信息。在这一视觉之旅中，他唤醒了我们对内在集体归属的思考与反省。

作品赏析   

艺术家介绍   

2023年9月，韦斯特利为纽约州完成了他的首件永久性公共艺术作品，位于长岛的新西贝里MTA长岛铁路车站。这件名为《启示》的委托作品，以动感的象征手法，反映了西贝里的人物与景致，并将玻璃、金属、光影作为平等的构成元素，创造了记忆的象征与瞬间思索的环境。

达里尔·韦斯特利出生并成长于伊利诺伊州芝加哥，2014年获得库珀联盟的艺术学士学位。2023年3月，韦斯特利参加了长岛的萨格港教堂绘画强化驻留项目。他的个展包括纽约1969画廊的《延迟的梦》（2021）以及洛杉矶ParisTexasLA画廊的《内外之间》（2019）。群展包括纽约詹姆斯·科恩画廊的《阿卡迪亚与别处》（2024）、洛杉矶The Hole画廊的《男体造景》（2022）以及芝加哥Kavi Gupta画廊的《肌肤与面具》（2022）。韦斯特利的作品曾参与Kasmin画廊为“Artistic Noise”举办的慈善拍卖（2023）以及新加坡Cuturi画廊在香港Art Central的展览（2020）。他曾被《采访》杂志、《Juxtapoz》、《Whitewall》、《Artnet》、《Surface》、《The Brooklyn Rail》、《Artsy》和《Office》杂志等刊物报道。韦斯特利目前生活并工作于纽约。

In September of 2023, Westly completed his first permanent public artwork for the State of New York for the new Westbury MTA LIRR station on Long Island. Titled ‘Illuminations,’ Westly’s commission is a dynamic, allegorical reflection of the people and places of Westbury that employs glass, metal, light, and shadow as equal counterparts, creating symbols of remembrance and an environment for transitory contemplation. 

Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Darryl Westly received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2014. In March of 2023, Westly attended The Church Sag Harbor Painting Intensive residency on Long Island. Solo presentations include A Dream Deferred at 1969 Gallery, NY (2021), Interior/Exterior at ParisTexasLA Gallery, LA (2019). Group exhibitions include Arcadia and Elsewhere at James Cohan Gallery, NY (2024), Manscaping at The Hole, LA (2022), and Skin + Masks at Kavi Gupta, Chicago (2022). Westly’s work has been featured as part of Kasmin Gallery’s Benefit Auction for Artistic Noise (2023), and Art Central Hong Kong with Cuturi Gallery in Singapore (2020). Select publications include Interview, Juxtapoz, Whitewall, Artnet, Surface Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Artsy, and Office Magazine. Westly lives and works in New York, New York.