Ward Davenny Exhibits Photography and Works on Paper
March 11, 2008

Artwork by Ward DavennyTacoma, WA - Kittredge Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of large-scale photographs and drawings by artist Ward Davenny March 24-April 18. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

The works evoke an unconquerable landscape, as inexorable as mortality. Davenny, who films and photographs mid-western summer storms in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas, works from a combination of sources that refer to these and other experiences. Describing an interest in "the particles, the swarm of insect that have no finite start or end", the artist focuses on movement, luminescence, and shifting ambiguity in the landscape. The influence of intaglio printmaking is evident in Davenny's work, as the dissolve of light and edge recalls that of a mezzotint or aquatint.

Ward Davenny lives and works in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he is a professor in the Art Department at Dickinson College. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions and acquired by several museum including the Minneapolis Art Institute, the British Museum, the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the McNay Art Institute, and the Yale University Art Gallery. He has been the recipient of several awards including major, multiple National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship grants.

Artist Talk: Wednesday, April 16, 3 p.m. Kittredge Gallery?Location: University of Puget Sound, N. 15th St. at N. Lawrence St., Tacoma, WA. Map: www.ups.edu/campusmap.xml Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat., noon-5 p.m. For additional information, phone 253.879.2806. Web: www.ups.edu/kittredge.xml.

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