David Dornan: Solo Exhibition Catalog

D av i d D o r n a n Solo Exhibition

D av i d D o r n a n

Meyer Gallery 225 Canyon Road Santa Fe, NM 87501 505.983.1434 800.779.7387 www.meyergalleries.com

David Dornan resides in Utah and has spent the past nine winters painting in the desert. Recently he resigned a 17-year university faculty position to pursue his painting career full time. David has produced a sizable body of work, focusing most recently on a series of still life motif paintings. His work is in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States.

Throughout his career he has received purchase awards, prizes, best of show awards, and/or high placement in nearly every exhibition he has entered. David has also won many academic and professional awards, and he has been exhibiting nationally for nearly 20 years.

Remarkable things happen to commonplace objects in David’s paintings. A can or jar, a flower, a paint brush- a palette as a sole subject or as elements in a complex composition take on a monumental quality through scale changes and central placement. The objects painted assume a commanding presence through his assertive paint application. Immediacy and spontaneity are achieved not only with a brush, but also through the smear of a thumb, the wipe of a rag, and the “weight and speed” of a drip.

“At a distance my paintings are depictions of familiar objects - cups and bottles, studio objects on a palette and, more recently, flowers- but the up-close view exposes the abstract juxtaposition and layering of paint, not the three-dimensional imagery. You can see the splotches, handprints, scratches - evidence of the way I put paint on canvas. There is interaction between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional aspects of my paintings. When there are objects within the abstraction I have a parameter against which to measure my technique.

“When I am painting a visual dialogue develops between the medium’s inherent qualities (i.e. value, color, texture, fluidity, etc.) and the form I am trying to depict. My paintings are a record of this visual dialogue. I do not begin a painting with a fixed idea of what the painting will look like. The methods and techniques, which I employ during the process of painting, determine the final results. Sometimes I dominate this process with concepts and techniques, which are too familiar to me, and the result is always lifeless. When this happens I will destroy or alter the image by employing haphazard, naive, or accidental paint applications. This will open the painting up, forcing me to react rather than to dictate. Painting is almost always more interesting to me when the process is pulling me as much as I am pushing it.

Mel t

oi l

22 x 24

Staging

oil 24 x 26

Icon I oil 24 x 18

Icon II

oil

24 x 18

Display oil

45 x 40

Garden Variety oil

20 x 22

Icon III

oil

24 x 18

Icon IV

oil

24 x 18

Studio

oil

52 x 60

Families

oil

14 x 16

Harmonize

oil

32 X 36

Sideshow

oil

40 x 45

Collector oil

32 x 36

Soup and Sauce oil

26 x 24

Wilube oil

22 x 20

Sunbathers oil

19 x 18

Mini Carb oil

12 x 10

David Dornan Solo e xhibition Price List

Melt

oil

22 x 24

$4,000

Staging

oil

24 x 26

$4,500

Icon I

oil

24 x 18

$3,600

Icon II

oil

24 x 18

$3,600

Display oil

45 x 40

$12,500

Garden Variety oil

20 x 22

$3,600

Icon III

oil

24 x 18

$3,600

Icon IV

oil

24 x 18

$3,600

Studio

oil

52 x 60

$20,000

14 x 16

$1,800

Families oil Harmonize

oil

32 x 36

$7,800

Sideshow oil

Collector oil

40 x 45

$12,500

32 x 36

$7,800

Soup and Sauce oil

26 x 24

$4,500

Wilube

oil

22 x 20

$3,600

Sunbathers

oil

19 x 18

$3,300

Mini Carb

oil

12 x 10

$1,200

David Dornan Solo e xhibition June 25, 2021 - July 8, 2021

Meyer Gallery

225 Canyon Road Santa Fe, NM 87501 505.983.1434 800.779.7387 www.meyergalleries.com