Walter Darby Bannard: Recent Paintings
IN MEMORIUM | WATER DARBY BANNARD (1934-2016)| RECENT PAINTINGS OPENS AT BERRY CAMPBELL
With great sadness, Berry Campbell announced the death of Walter Darby Bannard on October 2, 2016. A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard was committed to color-based and expressionist abstraction for over six decades. Berry Campbell gallery in conjunction with Bannard have been collaborating on an exhibition of his recent paintings for the last six months. We are pleased to present 15 of Bannard’s recent paintings, some of which of are large scale. Please join us in honor of Walter Darby Bannard and in celebration of his latest paintings on Thursday, October 13 from 6 to 8pm. The exhibition will run through November 12, 2016.
In his most recent and last paintings, Bannard increased the intensity and juxtaposition of color. The more neutral backgrounds of the past have shifted to all-over color. The surfaces of the paintings are flat and three-dimensional all at once: hot pink and fluorescent green geometric shapes appear to float above and protrude from the flat canvas. These circles reference earlier days, but added now are hard-edge trapezoids. Flat areas of color are spiked by splatters of sparkly gels and raised areas of large sweeping brush-work creating a dance across the surface. Methods and techniques from prior paintings are combined and used in unison in these dynamic compositions. In these last paintings, Bannard painted with an increased vigor creating large-scale paintings up to thirteen feet wide.
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