Darren Waterston: Representing The Invisible

About this book

Darren Waterstons somber but sexy paintings layer curvy organic forms over strong colors in alluring riffs on the language of landscape. As abstract works with a visceral physicality they evoke a sense of place without geographic reference. Their night-sky blues mist grays and blood reds are dotted with disorienting arrays of starry pinpoints bubbles ripples and rays. Perhaps because his work could offer a window to anywhere--deep space your backyard or your synapses--it works at any scale. His most recent mural project Was and Is Not and Is to Come for the San Jose Contemporary Art Center was his largest to date expanding over 150 feet and taking two weeks to execute. Waterston has exhibited internationally is included in permanent collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the de Young Museum and has been covered in ArtNews Art in America GQ the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.