BETWEEN THE TIDES
John Davis Gallery
September 15, 2018-October 7, 2018
“My work blurs the boundaries of painting and sculpture, abstraction, and figuration, as well as “high” and “low” art. This aesthetic is borne out of my life’s histories, personal struggles (and triumphs over them), family, and my love of the act of and history of painting. My aim is to create work that expresses a range of human emotion; at once violent, fragile, sensitive, fierce, vulnerable, and compassionate.
Mirrored glass, wood, paint, and found objects are built up and broken down through a persistently regenerative process highlighting the cracks, stains, and tears. These marks become symbols of a fracturing redemption, a complexity with an acceptance of all of what we are, and in the end, what makes us human.”
-Daniel John Gadd, 2018