darryl westly: ‘home’ - Solo exhibition

October 1st - November 7th, 2024

Crossing Art is proud to announce ‘Home’, a solo exhibition showcasing paintings by Darryl Westly. Exploring the nature of Home as an ever-unfolding journey, one deeply personal, yet which rings with a universal resonance to the core of human belonging. Through an intentional, targeted mastery of paint, Westly’s unique note of both familiarity and transcendence resonates across this collection. Our shared human quest of belonging, and the very nature of memory, are explored in kaleidoscopic renderings of universally recognized human comforts — and suspended in swaths of untouched linen.

‘Home’ is presented as an icon of the collective human experience; Westly considers what signifies a home through interiors sans figuration. The intricate weavings of Westly’s space situates and integrates the viewer as subject, inviting rumination on one’s associations with comfort and warmth. The artist’s profound effort to disassemble early memories rebuilds elements of his South Chicago upbringing, which discuss the complex nature of leisure and peace within a diverse society. In his own words, “the couch and table represent two pillars of what makes a home: rest and sustenance, a necessary means for growth and supporting life”.

The unconscious elements of ‘Home’ are most apparent in the themes guiding the eye between an abstract dream-field, and flowers that defy logic yet maintain a whimsical structure of their own. The elaborate process of his floral designs consist of digitally layered and manipulated images, with a self-aware reminiscence of a home screen or screen saver background, this internationally shared nostalgia for the earliest era of personal computers radiating with a static refinement.

As a diamond spurs our innate collective draw to sparkling clear water, Westly’s imagery draws us closer to a sense of universal Home — and through it, a crucial message of hope for greater reflection on our innate collective unity emerges.

Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Westly received his BFA from Cooper Union and attended the Church Sag Harbor Painting Intensive Residency on Long Island. Solo presentations and group exhibitions span showings at ParisTexasLA Gallery, James Cohan Gallery, Singapore's Cuturi Gallery, Kasmin Gallery's Benefit Auction and more. Select publications include Interview, Juxtapose, Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail, Artsy, and Office Magazine. Darryl Westly currently lives and works in New York.

Darryl Westly’s ‘Home’ will be on view at Crossing Art gallery in Chelsea, New York from October 1st through to November 7th 2024.