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RSS FeedsDana Powell joins Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
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10 december 2018 01:10:02

 
Dana Powell joins Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
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Dana Powell`s small-scale oil paintings depict moments of transition and anticipation. They take the shape of night drives, full moons, swimming pools, elevator doors, still lifes with fruit, explosions, and peep holes. Unrelated at first look, these subjects prove malleable apparatus in demonstrating the unsettling power of the ordinary, and emotive potential of small shifts in formal painting strategies. Considered austerity is applied to Powell’s tableaus of the everyday, offering a window to the familiar and its undertow. Each group of paintings acutely captures suspended moments, with works activating scenarios that await some conclusion. Paintings of fruit and inanimate commonplace objects further the tradition attached to still life painting, and explore the possibilities of portraying time, as it unfolds in a static frame. Stretching subjects beyond face value interpretation, Powell’s core strategies are often rooted in the ambiguity embedded within an object or scena


 
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