Kevin Darmanie:
Self Portraits Of Others & Others
June 18 - July 29, 2022
Opening Reception:
Saturday, June 18th, 6-9 PM
Peninsula Art Space is pleased to present “Self Portraits of Others & Others,” a solo exhibition showcasing the paintings and watercolors of artist Kevin Darmanie.
Darmanie utilizes photographs of himself and his friends to create his portraiture, referencing elements of his own life and shared experiences to inform clean narrative works which explore complex relationships between image, object, gaze and landscape. In Darmanie’s recent work, the cellphone’s function as a contemporary mechanism for interpersonal communication looms prominent, informing the composition of the artworks and acting as the de facto device to capture the depicted images.
The artist’s sense of color, line, and composition simultaneously evokes the loose, illustrative style 1980’s European graphic novels and the chaotic aesthetic of 20th Century metaphysical painting. Within his depictions of cellphone-photographed scenes of people in intimate, cluttered spaces, this stylistic combination serves to convey an intersection of ages. Modernity melds with the past.
