DARRYL AT BAR

Dates of residency: September till October 2017
Born: 1989
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Lives and works: New York, NY
Education: 
2009 MFA Fine Arts (Sculpture), Pratt Institute
2013 BFA Fine Arts, The Cooper Union 
Selected Shows
2020 Fragmented Bodies, Albertz Benda, New York
2020 In Full Bloom, Cuturi Gallery, Singapore
2019     Interior/Exterior, PARISTEXASLA Gallery, Los Angeles
2019 Vanquishing Ocular, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, NY (group)

THE ARTIST
Darryl Westly is a mixed media artist and curator whose paintings layer hyperrealism, architectural elements with idealized landscapes and art historical references. Westly graduated from Pratt Institute as a sculpture major and holds a BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and the Arts. A former assistant to celebrity pop artist Jeff Koons, the Chicago-born painter currently works alongside the art collective Bruce High Quality in Brooklyn and in his studio in Manhattan. He has curated shows for Christie’s Auction House, FiveMyles and Miranda Kuo, and most recently was commissioned to design a Digital watch for Fossil.

THE RESIDENCY
Westly uses the streets, walls and architecture of Beirut as his inspiration for a new series of interior/exterior ‘landscapes’. Color, voids, shadows and light merge to create a perspective to the past, present and future of the city. The revealed neatness in his paintings link to Westly’s former eye-catching compositions of make feel ‘happy’ junk and his enquiry into our socially coded lifestyles.