Night & Day: The Art of Don Swanson

9.9 - 10.5 | 2021

NIGHT & DAY

T H E A RT O F D O N S WA N S O N

DON SWAN SON For more than four decades, Don Swanson called The Frick Collection in New York City his professional home, rising to become the institution’s Chief of Collections Preservation and Graphic Designer.

He retired from The Frick in 2017.

Throughout his multi-faceted career at the Frick, Swanson pursued his private passion for painting.

Swanson’s paintings are abstract, contemplative and vibrant and about the imagination where the viewer discovers something on the canvas and supplies the narrative.

Swanson says his paintings celebrate the “joy of color and surfaces.” He likes to work in “layers of glazes – the finished effect creates a sense of depth and ambiguous space.”

Swanson’s work has been exhibited at Loeb Gallery, NYU, PS 21 Chatham, Miami University Art Museum, The Frick Collection, OSilas Gallery, Kenise Barnes Fine Arts, as well as the opening exhibition of J. Mackey Gallery, “The Deep End of Peace.”

Cobalt | 2020-21, oil on linen | 66 x 60 in.

Pink | 2020-21, oil on linen, 66 x 60 in.

On Fire | 2011-13, oil on linen, 60 x 60 in.

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J. Mackey

brings original works to the Hamptons community. The gallery represents emerging as well as established artists and is committed to fostering the impact art has to aesthetically enhance spaces, provoke thought and stimulate the senses.

Reflecting the spirit of the Hamptons as a place of serenity, natural beauty, and vibrant colors, J. Mackey Gallery strives to ensure the artwork represented is accessible to the public while creating an inviting and unique visitor experience and place of reflection.

Violet | 2020-21, oil on linen, 66 x 60 in.

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Detail: Planting | 2013-14, oil on linen, 66 x 60 in.

Cover: Rumpled | 2012–14, oil on paper, 30 x 22.5 in.