JESSICA MURRAY PROJECTS
210 NORTH 6TH STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11211
718.963.0933
info@jessicamurrayprojects.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Jessica Murray Projects is pleased to announce "I'm Only Now" by Brady Dollarhide and "Test Kit" by Daniel Davidson. Both exhibitions will open Friday, September 20 with a reception from 6-9 PM and will run through November 3. Gallery hours are Friday – Sunday, 12-6 PM.

MAIN GALLERY

For Brady Dollarhide's first solo exhibition, "I'm Only Now," he continues a series of paintings that meld portraiture and landscape. Using the black-silhouetted tree as a stand-in for the sitter, these larger works expand on his earlier "head shots" to subjects of seminal human activity. Each painting has an immediate mood—expectant and peaceful, somber, discordant, excited, but their metaphors of birth, failure, conflict and pursuit unravel slowly. Dollarhide seduces the viewer with expressionistic skies in pink, gray, turquoise and orange. Sampling different painting techniques, he plays with drips, smears, and pristinely prepared silkiness. These meditative surfaces are activated by a combination of trees, cords, and stars that together create decisive moments without any distinct biographical details. Like snapshots, his paintings are framed with thin white borders referencing the documentation and construction of personal history.

Brady Dollarhide will be featured in Art and Antiques magazine in a article on emerging artists (December).

DRAWING ROOM

In the drawing room, Jessica Murray Projects is also pleased to announce "Test Kit" by Daniel Davidson. Davidson presents a selection of collages and drawings in pen, ink, and acrylic that explore subjects of self-deprecation, violence and immorality. From a fashion illustration of a man with madras pants whose head has been replaced by the oversized sinister face of the artist, to a trompe l'oeil Post-it from his brother saying, "Give me a call," the artist samples various drawing styles and materials. Unencumbered by stylistic affiliation, Davidson creates exaggerated character studies of the menacing, the ignorant, and the deceitful.

For more information, please contact Jessica Murray at info@jessicamurrayprojects.com or 718.384.9606.

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