Darren Waterston Exhibition

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Darren Waterston Exhibition

04/23/14

Falling, 2014, Watercolor on Rag Paper

Darren Waterston's exhibition Cadence is at the Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle, WA and runs through May 17th. He painted this body of work during his residency this year at MASS MoCA. The title of this exhibition refers to the sequence of chords comprising a musical phrase.

"Since I have been so deeply immersed in all things Whistler of late, I wanted to explore futher the parallels found in both painterly and symphonic compositions."

Darren was Oxbow's Visiting Artist in Residence for OS21. darrenwaterston.com.

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