David Hytone

Rest/Less, Less/Rest

July 5 - August 24, 2024

Opening Reception: “First Thursday,” July 11, 6-8pm
Artist talk: “Saturday After”, July 13 at noon

The Gallery is pleased to present our first one-person exhibition by Washington artist David Hytone. In work that is constructed by many individual pieces of hand-painted paper, the artist employs a laborious process of collage and painting, glass-plate dry paint transfer and mono print techniques. The resulting images appear compromised or incomplete, like distant memories.

THE JOURNEYMAN'S PARADE , 2024
Acrylic and Okawara paper on panel, 54 x 80 inches

“I have been thinking about the notion of the self as an aggregate of separate identities, cobbled loosely together from the different performances we present as we move from one societal construct to another. What I find equally compelling is how memory informs and is informed by this action. I am also intrigued with the idea of reality as performance. Studies in quantum physics such as Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle have suggested that light and matter behave differently depending on whether or not they are being observed. A poetic reading of this renders the world around us essentially a facade or something akin to a shifting theater set.”

–David Hytone

Work in exhibition