Press Release:
Dan Sutherland
rift
April 6 – May 11, 2019
Reception for the Artist Saturday, April 6, 5-7 pm Artist Talk Saturday, April 6, 5 pm
Moody Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Dan Sutherland. rift marks his fifth solo exhibition with the gallery since 2006. “In his recent series of graphite drawings on paper and oil paintings on aluminum and wood panel, Sutherland makes images of almost-things and nearly-places in which abstract forms are subject to quasi- naturalistic phenomenon. Sunlight, gravity, and atmosphere distort and delineate dimensional structures that never quite conform to the laws of nature. Colors flatten, plateaus dissolve, and historical styles collide in works that appeal to our sense of comprehension only to defy it, providing unstable ground from which to view expansive and contradictory landscapes”. -Daniel Dove, 2019
Dan Sutherland was born in Dover, New Hampshire and currently lives and works in Austin, Texas where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia in 1988 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University, New York in 1991. Sutherland’s work has been included in exhibitions at the McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas; McAllen Museum of Art, McAllen, Texas; Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas; Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas; Diverse Works, Houston, Texas; Metcalf Gallery, Taylor University, Upland, Indiana; Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida; Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, New York; and The Laholm Drawing Museum, Hasttorget, Sweden. He is also a recipient of an ArtPace Foundation London Studio Program Grant and a Leopold Schepp Foundation Grant.
Dan Sutherland: rift is on view at Moody Gallery Saturday, April 6 through Saturday, May 11, 2019. A reception for the artist will be held Saturday, April 6 from 5-7 pm with an artist talk at 5 pm.