Daryl Westly
Mar 16-29, 2023
Darryl Westly received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2014. In 2016 Westly participated in the Beirut Art Residency Program in Beirut, Lebanon. Solo presentations include A Dream Deferred at 1969 Gallery, NY (2021), Interior/Exterior at ParisTexasLA Gallery, Los Angeles (2019). Group exhibitions include Everyday is Sunday at UTA Artists Space, Beverly Hills, Animal Kingdom at Alexander Berggruen Gallery, NY, Vanquishing Ocular curated by David Salle and Nicole Wittenberg, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, and Ways To Die by The Bruce High Quality Foundation. Collections include the Rema Hort Foundation, The Portland Museum of Art, The Fidelity Collection, among many others.
While in residence, Westly will explore formal techniques of representation within oil painting and the deconstruction of visual aesthetics of class, as communicated through western art history and contemporary pop culture/advertising.