Darren Waterston

Darren Waterston’s otherworldly compositions trespass effortlessly into “The Sublime” with bold colors and atmospheric abstractions that drip with emotion.

Darren Waterston

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Morpheus no. 8

2019, Watercolor on rag paper,
14 x 10 in, (35.6 x 25.4 cm), DW 467
$4,500

Morpheus no. 3

2018, Watercolor on rag paper,
14 x 10 in, (35.6 x 25.4 cm), DW 450
$4,500

Duplet

2019, Watercolor and gouache on rag paper,
12 x 9 in, (30.5 x 22.9 cm), DW 464
$4,000

Morpheus no. 7

2019, Watercolor on rag paper,
14 x 10 in (35.6 x 25.4 cm), DW 466
$4,500

Cacophony Study

2019, Watercolor and gouache on rag paper,
12 x 9 in, (30.5 x 22.9 cm), DW 463
$4,000

Miracle

2017, Oil on wood panel,
24 x 24 in, (61 x 61 cm)

Various Landscapes no.6

2017, watercolor and gouache on rag paper,
8 x 6 in, (20.3 x 15.2 cm), 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 in, (34.3 x 29.2 cm) matted, DW 403
$3,100

Aria no. 2

2019, Watercolor and gouache on rag paper,
12 x 9 in, (30.5 x 22.9 cm), DW 492

Eight Moons no. 1

2016, watercolor on rag paper 8 x 6 in,
(20.3 x 15.2 cm), 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 in, (34.3 x 29.2 cm) matted, DW 391
$3,100

Bounty

2018 Watercolor on rag paper,
10 x 7 in, (25.4 x 17.8 cm), DW 469
$3,000

Morphology no.4

2016 Oil on wood panel,
24 x 24 in, (61 x 61 cm)

Pavo no. 44

2019, Watercolor and gouache on rag paper,
16 x 12 in, (40.6 x 30.5 cm), DW 495

Aria no. 1

2019, Watercolor and gouache on rag paper,
12 x 9 in, (30.5 x 22.9 cm), DW 491
$4,000

Augury no.1

2019, Watercolor and gouache on rag paper,
14 x 10 in, (35.6 x 25.4 cm), DW 496
$4,500

Augury no. 2

2019 Watercolor and gouache on rag paper,
14 x 10 in, (35.6 x 25.4 cm), DW 497
$4,500

Today’s Clearing

2019 Watercolor and gouache on rag paper,
16 x 12 in, (40.6 x 30.5 cm), DW 498
$5,500

Darren Waterston’s otherworldly compositions trespass effortlessly into “The Sublime” with bold colors and atmospheric abstractions that drip with emotion. Waterston magnifies beauty; creating not replicas of the world in front of him, but compositions that are brimming with a distilled, abstracted version of a place. In some compositions, recognizable forms like a moon or a mountain range are featured alongside nonrepresentational patterning or stunningly precise graphic elements. The familiar anchors and pulls us into the fantasy. A tree balances in the foreground. A flock of butterflies float across a page. These are works to get lost in, to escape to: to remind us that The Landscape – whether real or imagined – is a place of wonder.

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Darren Waterston

Darren Waterston (born 1965, Fresno, CA) graduated with a BFA from the Otis Art Institute in 1988, having previously studied at the Akademie der Künste and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, both in Germany. He has been exhibiting his paintings, works on paper, and installations in the U.S. and abroad since the early 1990s. Recent solo exhibition highlights include Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre, The Smithsonian Institution’s Freer/Sackler Galleries (2017); Architectonic Forms, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2017); Darren Waterston: New Work, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (2016); Pavo, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (2015); and Uncertain Beauty, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2014). In 2007 CHARTA published a monograph on the artist, Darren Waterston: Representing the Invisible, and in 2013 Prestel published a collaboration between the artist and poet Mark Doty, A Swarm, A Flock, a Host: A Compendium of Creatures. Waterston’s paintings are included in numerous permanent collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA; New York Public Library, New York City, NY; Portland Art Museum, OR; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. Waterston lives and works in Hudson, NY.

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