Night & Day: The Art of Don Swanson
Cobalt | 2020-21, oil on linen, 66 x 60 in.
NIGHT & DAY: THE ART OF DON SWANSON
Solo Exhibition Opening at J. Mackey Gallery, September 9 – October 5, 2021
Opening: Thursday, September 9
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 11 | 7 – 9 PM
J. Mackey Gallery in East Hampton is pleased to present, Night & Day: The Art of Don Swanson. For more than four decades, Don Swanson called The Frick Collection in New York City his professional home, rising to become the institution’s Chief of Collections Preservation and Graphic Designer. He retired from The Frick in 2017. Throughout his multi-faceted career at the Frick, Swanson pursued his private passion for painting.
The exhibition explores Swanson’s abstract, contemplative and vibrant work. Swanson’s paintings reveal the intricacies of the imagination where the viewer discovers something on the canvas and supplies the narrative. Swanson says his paintings celebrate the “joy of color and surfaces.” He likes to work in “layers of glazes – the finished effect creates a sense of depth and ambiguous space.”
Don Swanson received his BFA in Painting from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and did graduate work at Kent State University. He studied with artists Walter Darby Bannard, Don Eddy and Larry Zox. Swanson’s work has been exhibited at Loeb Gallery, NYU, PS 21 Chatham, Miami University Art Museum, The Frick Collection, OSilas Gallery, Kenise Barnes Fine Arts, as well as the opening exhibition of J. Mackey Gallery, “The Deep End of Peace.”
Forthcoming exhibitions at J. Mackey Gallery will include works by Korean potter Heyja Do, and painter Cynthia Hartling, living in Santa Fe.
ABOUT J. MACKEY GALLERY
J. Mackey Gallery brings original works to the Hamptons community. The gallery represents emerging as well as established artists and is committed to fostering the impact art has to aesthetically enhance spaces, provoke thought and stimulate the senses.
Reflecting the spirit of the Hamptons as a place of serenity, natural beauty, and vibrant colors, J. Mackey Gallery strives to ensure the artwork represented is accessible to the public while creating an inviting and unique visitor experience and place of reflection.
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