Familiar Strangers: Devon Nowlin
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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- Devon Nowlin, Randomized Memory Overlay, 2017
- Devon Nowlin, With Regards, Shirley, 2009
- Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 02.07, 2017
- Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 06.22, 2017
- Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 10.08, 2017
- Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 11.25, 2017
- Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 06.25, 2017
- Devon Nowlin, Witnesses and Messengers: 05.26, 2017
- Devon Nowlin, The Honeymoon, 2010
- Devon Nowlin, The Gregories, 2010
- Devon Nowlin, Recovering Overwritten Memory, 2018
- Devon Nowlin, Omniscient Narrator, 2018
- Devon Nowlin, Painting For Men, 2018
- Devon Nowlin, Off Guard, 2018
Devon Nowlin on the Cover of Fort Worth Weekly
Anthony Mariani, Fort Worth Weekly, September 26, 2018Familiar Strangers: Devon Nowlin at Artspace111
Christopher Blay, Glasstire, September 24, 2018SURREALISTIC 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
Fort Worth WeeklySep 26, 2018Devon Nowlin received another insightful review and was featured as the cover story of the Fort Worth Weekly, written by Anthony Mariani. The author writes,...Read more - Press
Familiar Strangers: Devon Nowlin at Artspace111
GlasstireSep 24, 2018Christopher Blay explores the latest exhibition by Devon Nowlin, FAMILIAR STRANGERS, on display at Artspace111 from September 8, 2018 - October 6, 2018. The author...Read more - Press
SURREALISTIC AMERICANA: DEVON NOWLIN COLORFULLY RIFFS ON NOSTALGIA AT ARTSPACE 111
Arts and Culture TexasAug 30, 2018Devon 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...Read more
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