Opening Reception & Artist Talk | Danville Chadbourne

Join us on March 27th for an unforgettable evening at Artspace111's Opening Reception & Artist Talk featuring Danville Chadbourne and his captivating exhibition, Artifacts. Dive into the world of his artistic vision and join the conversation.

Thursday, March 27th, 5:30 - 7:30pm

Artspace111, 111 Hampton Street, 76102

This exhibition features a new body of works in both clay and wood, including small and large-scale sculptures, wall-oriented ceramic reliefs and an ongoing series of drawings on wood panels. Chadboune’s work is concerned with evoking spiritual or primal states, using simple organic forms in suggestive conjunctions that elaborate on metaphorical issues of ambiguity, morality, accident/intention, contradiction, or existence itself. There is often an allusion to circumstance, contextual or ritual usage and time, but in a peripheral, indirect or generalized way. The works seem interrelated, part of some culture with an elaborate but undefined mythological structure. His forms, materials, and processes imply cultural attitudes that are harmonious with nature and the passage of time. Clay has associative power archaeologically, responds well to the expressive needs of his ideas and is relatively permanent. Wood, stone, fiber, bone and found objects also have connotative powers. This anthropological perception is a key issue in Chadbourne’s work.