Brian Dupont’s Appropriated Texts opens March 7 and runs until April 14, 2013 at Adah Rose Gallery (3766 Howard Ave
Kensington, Maryland). The opening vernissage takes place 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday March 9, 2013. Live music will be performed by Blackberry Blonde.
Dupont’s paintings use text and focus how the visual aspects of how information is conveyed within abstract painting. Found texts, tweets, writing by Samuel Beckett and Thomas Pynchon. Recent work deals with possibilities within language using the written and printed word as a source. The words are stressed and distorted in painting, erasing and repainting. Dupont paints oil on metal.
Dupont was born in Washington State but lives in Brooklyn. He has been the subject of numerous solo exhibits and writes for the art magazine, Idiom.
Kensington, Maryland). The opening vernissage takes place 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday March 9, 2013. Live music will be performed by Blackberry Blonde.
Dupont’s paintings use text and focus how the visual aspects of how information is conveyed within abstract painting. Found texts, tweets, writing by Samuel Beckett and Thomas Pynchon. Recent work deals with possibilities within language using the written and printed word as a source. The words are stressed and distorted in painting, erasing and repainting. Dupont paints oil on metal.
Dupont was born in Washington State but lives in Brooklyn. He has been the subject of numerous solo exhibits and writes for the art magazine, Idiom.
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