• 'The Enclave'

    February 3 - March 2, 2024
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    Colin Brant
    James Castle
    Khaled Chamma
    Adam Fowler
    Rose Greenman
    Kevin McNamee-Tweed
    José Nuñez
  • Dutton presents The Enclave, a group exhibition of artists across generations whose works distill a sanctity and containment enclosed within structure, form, or vessels - baring what is outwards and intimating what lies within.
     
    An enclave is a private, intimate, sheltered space and an instinctual anchor of the mind and spirit, a place to unfurl ones imaginings and longing, an observational touchstone, a built-up accumulation of materials and raw conduit of the artists' interior pyschic space. The potent structures also encapsulate a necessary and intentional labor-steeped ritual pursuit of making, the site of creating, and how one finds containment inside a picture.
     
    Dutton shows contemporary and self-taught, visionary and neuro-divergent artists in New York. This exhibition brings together a through-line of painting, works on paper, and ceramic sculpture that have a kinship in varying degrees of pared back approaches - soot and spit, pulp painting, carving a knife into clay and applying delicate experimental glazes, intricately cutting away drawn paper over long months, virtuosic use of a ball-point pen on scraps of paper brought home by family members, and chalky brush.
     
    February 3 - March 2, 2024
    Opening February 3, 3-5 pm
     
    Darren Knight Gallery
    840 Elizabeth St.
    Waterloo NSW 2017
    Sydney, Australia
     

  • Colin Brant b. 1965

  • Colin Brant (b. 1965) received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2022. He has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Solo exhibitions include Dutton Gallery (New York); Galleria Richter (Rome, Italy); Jeff Bailey Gallery (New York); Adam Baumgold Gallery (New York); and Beth Urdang Gallery (Boston). Group exhibitions include James Cohan Gallery (New York); Steven Zevitas Gallery (Boston); Lucien Terras (New York); Geoffrey Young Gallery (Great Barrington, MA); The Bennington Museum (Bennington, Vermont); The Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield, MA); and Platform Space (Brooklyn), among others. Brant received a BA, University of California at Santa Cruz; and an MA and MFA, University of Iowa. Brant lives and works in North Bennington, Vermont and Brooklyn, New York.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Khaled Chamma b. 1992

  • Khaled Chamma (b. 1992) is a Syrian Australian artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Using wax-based color pencils, Chamma creates drawings on paper that weave multilayered imagery meeting of natural and psychological worlds. Born to immigrant parents, Chamma lived in Syria for the middle ten of his thirty years. Chamma earnt a Diploma of Visual Art from RMIT in Printmaking (2013); and a Bachelor of Fine Art from RMIT in Expanded Studio Practice (2020). In 2022, his drawing “Summer Daydream” won Brunswick Street Gallery's 'Fifty Squared' art prize. Chamma's first solo exhibition entitled 'Ootheca' opened at Brunswick Street Gallery in (2023), and six of his drawings were exhibited in West Space’s 30th anniversary group show alongside artists such as Susan Te Kahurangi King entitled 'Unison' (2023), curated by Sebastian Henry-Jones. Chamma's solo exhibition entitled 'Morphosis' was held in New York in 2023.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Rose deSmith Greenman 1898 - 1983

  • Rose deSmith Greenman (b. 1998, Boston d. 1983) didn't begin creating art until 1969. From 1970-1977, while struggling with Alzheimer's disease, she produced a staggering number of drawings. Working with pencils, pen, and crayons, deSmith Greenman interpreted her world with intricately detailed drawings of her house, garden, and family. The view of gardens during her poetic realism phase combine minutely detailed flowers with highly stylized cubism in vivid shades of color. Her landscapes of maple trees, oak trees, and vines add to the child-like magic of her compositions. In 1977 she abruptly stopped creating art, leaving behind a legacy of nearly two thousand drawings. Sixteen years after deSmith Greenman's death in 1983, her daughter and son-in-law, Betty and Frank Avruch, rediscovered her work in their attic. Her work will be shown at the Outsider Art Fair, in New York. 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Kevin McNamee-Tweed b. 1984

  • Kevin McNamee-Tweed (b. 1984) is based in Durham, North Carolina. He received an MA and MFA The University of Iowa and a BFA from New York University. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Dutton (New York), Cob Gallery (London), Steve Turner (Los Angeles), L21 Gallery (Mallorca), Harper’s (New York), Rod Barton (London), Devening Projects (Chicago), The Still House Group (New York), and The Menil Collection Books (Houston). Upcoming solo exhibitions will be held at Tatjana Pieters (Ghent) and Ceramic Brussels in Tatjana Pieters' two person booth with Anne Marie Laureys. He has participated in group shows in Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Australia, Iceland, Greece, and the UK. He is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies including the Ella Fountain Pratt Award, the Mildred Pelzer Grant, the Willhelm and Jane Bodine Fellowship, The Iowa Arts Fellowship, and the Montello Foundation Fellowship. Reviews of his work have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Artnet, Glasstire, and Hyperallergic, among others. A monograph on his ceramic work was published by Steve Turner (Los Angeles) in 2020. McNamee-Tweed had a solo exhibition at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2023 and has an upcoming solo at The Greenville County Museum of Art in South Carolina, as well as two new books forthcoming, including a monograph surveying McNamee-Tweed’s interdisciplinary practice.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Adam Fowler b. 1979

  • Adam Fowler (b.1979) draws on multiple hand-colored sheets of paper with a gestural line before painstakingly cutting the negative spaces, the work is then constructed by layering the sheets of cut drawings together one on top of another. The polar actions speak to materiality and physicality of highly refined processes and long stretches of time. In relation to these works, he explains: "In these new works I'm introducing color as compositional elements and thinking about optical mixing, that is to say how our eyes mix color together while seeing.  I have always been interested in line, movement, and space but while the introduction of color seems simple it has proven to change how I think about these ideas and put them into action in fundamental ways. This body represents some small scale, almost sketch-like approaches that act as exercises in how I consider material while the larger pieces are fully formed works that pull from highly refined processes and long stretches of time." Adam Fowler received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, in 2001. Fowler’s work has been exhibited in galleries and institutions throughout the US including the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI, Currier Art Museum, Manchester, NH, and at The Drawing Center, NYC among others. Fowler has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Drawing; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY; and the Young Artist Program Grant, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC. His work can be found in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the U.S.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • James Castle 1899 - 1977

  • James Castle (b. 1899 d. 1977) lived his whole life in the Boise Basin of Idaho. He was deaf from birth, and despite some schooling, never became fluent in alternative forms of communication such as lipreading, signing, reading, or writing. Castle began drawing as a child and continued to do so his entire life, but the primary body of his surviving work was made between 1931 and his death in 1977. Castle's parents both farmed and served as local postmasters; printed English texts inundated the family home and Castle studied them at length. His artworks drew almost equally on the physical landscape of his life and the text-based materials that prompted conversation for others, but remained, for him, impenetrable. Castle made as unique a body of art as any. He also brought the thorny issue of difference to the fore in a very particular way, underscoring the ways in which personal experience and challenge can shape an artistic path.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • José Nuñez 1945 - 2022

  • José Nuñez (b. 1949, El Salvador d. 2022, San Francisco), began working at Creativity Explored in 1996, uses a simple, assured stroke to delineate the shapes of his subjects, which he often repeats or elongates to fill the picture plane, giving his work a complex graphic arrangement. The flora and fauna of his beloved El Salvador occupy a large portion of his attention, his work often depicting memories from time spent alone in the countryside taking care of his family's cows. Out of those memories also come artistic investigations of mythological subjects like cadejo, a shadow dog that hunts at night and used to terrify him.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Darren Knight Gallery opened in Melbourne in September 1992, operating from a space in Fitzroy before relocating to its current location in Waterloo, Sydney in 1997. The gallery focuses on the long-term representation of its artists, providing a venue for regular solo and group exhibitions. Complementing this gallery program are occasional project exhibitions & performances with non-gallery artists, curators, musicians and other commercial galleries.