Dana Saulnier – Press Release

‘Nearly Distant’ – Paintings by Dana Saulnier

March 27 – April 20, 2024

Dana Saulnier, Detail of Untitled 222

Untitled 222.detail, oil on linen, 56 x 70 x 3 inches, 2022

Lush paintings evoke the figure in landscape; the artist’s embodied and fragmented forms are less figures than haptic events. Cycling intensive and extensive forces, boundaries between figure and ground are often permeable, transient, and uncertain. Yet the forms also demonstrate a grounded presence. Truncated masses achieve temporary integrity, a kind of circumspect distance.

These images, subject to failing light and immanent collapse, structure a precariousness that makes sense for our anxious era, as we face multiplying dilemmas and our own limitations.

‘Nearly Distant’ is Dana Saulnier’s sixth solo exhibition at First Street Gallery. Saulnier has exhibited his work in more than thirty solo shows, and numerous group exhibitions both in the United States and Europe.

See more of Dana Saulnier’s work and projects at www.danasaulnier.com