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Familiar Strangers: Devon Nowlin

Past exhibition
8 September - 6 October 2018
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Familiar Strangers, Devon Nowlin

 

Devon Nowlin's exhibition Familiar Strangers features new figurative oil paintings supplemented by a selection of three large-scale works from 2010. The earlier works were produced at a time when Nowlin first began to use found photographs of mid-twentieth century Americans as reference material in a series about nostalgia, memory, and longing. In new work, the return to these familiar-yet-distant figures presents the opportunity to reconsider the nature of nostalgia in this current political moment.

 

New paintings feature portraits of everyday figures from the past combined with imagery borrowed from modern magazine advertisements in layered effects meant to confuse time or place and complicate the reading of a simple, wistful narrative. It is through this layered and collage-like process that Nowlin explores the rift between the past and the present; between an era of collective aspirations with an era of corporately manufactured desires. Also included in the exhibition are smaller works on paper and a textile installation that reinforces the associative connections between time and place, national memory, and class narratives evoked by the larger paintings. 

 

Familiar Strangers is Devon Nowlin's second solo exhibition at Artspace111 and is accompanied by a catalogue review of ten years of Nowlin's work, supported by an essay from Dr. Mark Thistlethwaite, the Kay and Velma Kimbell Chair of Art History at Texas Christian University. 

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Works
  • Devon Nowlin, Randomized Memory Overlay, 2017
    Devon Nowlin, Randomized Memory Overlay, 2017
  • Devon Nowlin, With Regards, Shirley, 2009
    Devon Nowlin, With Regards, Shirley, 2009
  • Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 02.07, 2017
    Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 02.07, 2017
  • Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 06.22, 2017
    Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 06.22, 2017
  • Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 10.08, 2017
    Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 10.08, 2017
  • Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 11.25, 2017
    Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 11.25, 2017
  • Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 06.25, 2017
    Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 06.25, 2017
  • Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 05.26, 2017
    Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 05.26, 2017
  • Devon Nowlin, The Honeymoon, 2010
    Devon Nowlin, The Honeymoon, 2010
  • Devon Nowlin, The Gregories, 2010
    Devon Nowlin, The Gregories, 2010
  • Devon Nowlin, Recovering Overwritten Memory, 2018
    Devon Nowlin, Recovering Overwritten Memory, 2018
  • Devon Nowlin, Omniscient Narrator, 2018
    Devon Nowlin, Omniscient Narrator, 2018
  • Devon Nowlin, Painting For Men, 2018
    Devon Nowlin, Painting For Men, 2018
  • Devon Nowlin, Off Guard, 2018
    Devon Nowlin, Off Guard, 2018
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Installation Views
  • 2018 Devon Nowlin Familiar Strangers Install 017 Web
  • 2018 Devon Nowlin Familiar Strangers Install 002 Web
  • 2018 Devon Nowlin Familiar Strangers Install 024 Web
  • 2018 Devon Nowlin Familiar Strangers Install 006 Web
  • 2018 Devon Nowlin Familiar Strangers Install 028 Web
  • 2018 Devon Nowlin Familiar Strangers Install 026 Web
  • 2018 Devon Nowlin Familiar Strangers Install 035 Web
  • Nowlin Wm Instal2 Ptl Web
  • Nowlin Wm Instal1 Ptl Web
  • Nowlin Wm Instal3 Ptl Web
  • 2018 Devon Nowlin Familiar Strangers Install 015 Web
  • 2018 Devon Nowlin Familiar Strangers Install 021 Web
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Press
  • Devon Nowlin on the Cover of Fort Worth Weekly

    Anthony Mariani, Fort Worth Weekly, September 26, 2018
  • Installation of Devon Nowlin's FAMILIAR STRANGERS

    Familiar Strangers: Devon Nowlin at Artspace111

    Christopher Blay, Glasstire, September 24, 2018
  • Devon Nowlin Off Guard, 2018 Oil on canvas 60 x 40"

    SURREALISTIC AMERICANA: DEVON NOWLIN COLORFULLY RIFFS ON NOSTALGIA AT ARTSPACE 111

    Manuel Mendoza, Arts and Culture Texas, August 30, 2018
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  • Devon Nowlin on the Cover of Fort Worth Weekly Press

    Devon Nowlin on the Cover of Fort Worth Weekly

    Fort Worth Weekly Sep 26, 2018
    Devon Nowlin received another insightful review and was featured as the cover story of the Fort Worth Weekly, written by Anthony Mariani. The author writes,...
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  • Familiar Strangers: Devon Nowlin at Artspace111 Press

    Familiar Strangers: Devon Nowlin at Artspace111

    Glasstire Sep 24, 2018
    Christopher Blay explores the latest exhibition by Devon Nowlin, FAMILIAR STRANGERS, on display at Artspace111 from September 8, 2018 - October 6, 2018. The author...
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  • SURREALISTIC AMERICANA: DEVON NOWLIN COLORFULLY RIFFS ON NOSTALGIA AT ARTSPACE 111 Press

    SURREALISTIC AMERICANA: DEVON NOWLIN COLORFULLY RIFFS ON NOSTALGIA AT ARTSPACE 111

    Arts and Culture Texas Aug 30, 2018
    Devon Nowlin's new series featured in the exhibition at Artspace111, Familiar Strangers, is explored by Manuel Mendoza of Arts and Culture, Texas. The artists painting...
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