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.

The art that goes on in most high schools is usually relatively skill-based. At Oxbow, there is more emphasis on looking and seeing and more critical thinking about what you are doing, the human connection, that personal element. Through art you can begin to understand yourself better. That may be the biggest eye-opener for students. It is almost a preview of college. Get out of the mechanical factory high school education and get into something open, new, and invigorating in a small environment.

— Bill Barrett, Former Oxbow Board Member, Former Executive Director of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD)

I learned to drop all previous assumptions I had about people because I had never met anyone like the other students at Oxbow. For the first time, my peers and their insightful thinking inspired me. For example, during the ‘Einstein’s Dreams’ presentations, I kept looking around the room thinking, I can’t believe all of these students are talking the way I think.

— Sara DeLong, Spring 2010

If at any point Oxbow doubts the good it does, I just want to reassure you all that you’re changing the lives of young artists every semester.

— Colin Davis, Fall 2009

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