The power of this work, as David Pagel writes, resides in its fluidity, its capacity to dissolve hard-line distinctions between the substance of material reality and the power of the imagination.

Representing the Invisible surveys Darren Waterston's paintings in oil and watercolor from 2002 to 2006, a period in which the artist's approach to landscape gradually moved toward pure painterly abstraction. These paintings, with their vigorous formal sensibility and mastery of technique, explore representations of space and spatiality that are constantly in flux, suspended between what Waterston describes as "the seen and the unseen." The power of this work, as David Pagel writes, "...resides in its fluidity, its capacity to dissolve hard-line distinctions between the substance of material reality and the power of the imagination." As the accompanying essays argue, however,this abstraction has in no way abandoned the world: Waterston's work has remained deeply engaged with nature and the natural sciences, the history of art, Western and Eastern philosophy, and the perceptual experiences of the artist and viewer alike.

LIGHT AND SPACE AND DARKNESS:

TAKING PAINTING FULL CIRCLE IN THE WIRELESS WORLD

David Pagel

CHAOS OF THE SUN:

ENCOUNTERING THE ART OF DARREN WATERSTON

Jacquelynn Baas

RESONANCES

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Timothy Anglin Burgard and Darren Waterston

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