Reception for the artist: Saturday, September 15, 6 - 8 p.m.

Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to present Parlor, an exhibition of new work by San Francisco based artist Darren Waterston. On view is a salon style installation of approximately forty works on paper ranging from watercolors, drawings, monographs, and paintings on paper. Based on the idea or momentum, this dense and tightly hung installation references the dreamlike space between life and fantasy, subconscious, abstraction, and representation. Lacking a geographical reference and grounded in nature, Waterston’s work has remained deeply engaged with the history of art, Western and Eastern philosophy, and the perceptual experiences of the artist and viewer alike.

Parlor is on the heels of Waterston’s recent publication by Charta, Representing the Invisible, with essays by David Pagel, Jacquelynn Bass and an interview by Timothy Anglin Burgard. The monograph surveys Waterston’s oil and watercolor paintings from 2002 to 2006, a period in which the artist’s approach to landscape gradually moved toward pure painterly abstraction.

Darren Waterston has been in solo exhibitions at Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR (2007); Was and Is Not and Is to Come, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (2006); Hyle, Galerie Jan-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France (2006); Haines Gallery, San Francisco (2005); Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle (2004); Darren Waterston: Scapes, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA (2003); and Charles Cowles in New York (2003). Waterston has been included in the permanent collections at Berkeley Art Museum, U.C.L.A. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Henry Art Museum, Seattle.

For further information or materials, please contact Lizvet Corral at [email protected] or 323.658.8088.