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Employing the essential qualities of paint, the tropes of painting and the physicality of the hand-made, Darryl Vance creates bold, uneasy and challenging interpretations of the art object as a record of survival.
Underpinned by a particularly funky type of geometry, his compositions use vibrant colour, pattern and imbalance to invoke striking constructs of both the physical and cognitive world. Irregular and sensual, the works appear to vibrate between painting and sculpture. Freed from constraints of illusion, material is offered on its own terms, and without an image to decipher, the spectator is free to determine a personal understanding of the objects.
His practice is rooted in an unending curiosity of the human need to create. Senses of home, security, history and identity, incorporate aspects of his own immigrant experience to drive expression across painting, drawing, sculpture and creative collaboration.
Darryl Vance is an artist living in Kinvara, Ireland. A graduate of The Atlanta College of Art, his work has been featured in one-person and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe for over 35 years. It is also included in private collections throughout North America and Europe.
Working in a diverse range of media including photography, video, audio, billboards, performance, conceptual art and painting, he has shown at the Arts Festival of Atlanta, The Galway Fringe Festival, Westport Ireland Art and Music Festival, Venice Biennale, and Hemphill Fine Arts in Washington, DC.
In 2020, he produced Adjusting with the Not Over Yet collective. This international mail art exhibition featured the work of over 150 artists from more than 30 countries. He was the director of America’s first national conference on Cable Television and the Arts in 1980.
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b. Miami, FL
BFA, Atlanta College of Art
O N E a n d T W O P E R S O N E X H I B I T I O N S
2023
Paintings For Here And Now, Kinvara Area Visual Arts Kinvara, Ireland
2020
Weir In The Bardo, Galway Fringe Festival, Galway, Ireland
A Space Gallery, Corrandula, Ireland
2019
Two Places at Once with Fabiano Mulas, Kinvara Area Visual Arts, Kinvara, Ireland
2017
A Series of Decisions, Kinvara Area Visual Arts, Kinvara, Ireland
2010
Atelier One, Graton, CA
2008
The Water Coupe, Far West, Graton, CA
1985
Colony Square Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1979
Catbird Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1978
With Elisa Tennenbaum, Atlanta Art Workers Coalition Gallery, Atlanta, GA
S E L E C T E D G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
2023
Forhalla, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Ireland
2021
Artform Artfair, #44 The Quay, Waterford, Ireland
2020
Adjusting, Kinvara Area Visual Arts, Kinvara, Ireland
2019
Brittle/Fragile, Westport Music + Arts Festival, Westport, Ireland
Summer Exhibition, The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Ireland
2018
Identity, Westport Music + Arts Festival, Westport, Ireland
Cloud Cuckoo Land, Kinvara Area Visual Arts, Kinvara, Ireland
The Witches Knickers, Russell Gallery, New Quay, Ireland
2016
The Passdoor, Sebastopol, CA
Monique Arnon Art & Antiques, San Francisco, CA
2013
Invitational 7, Graton Gallery, Graton, CA
2011
Invitational 5, Graton Gallery, Graton, CA
2010
Looking West, West County Design, Valley Ford, CA
Still Life, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
2009
Economies of Scale, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Open Studio, Atelier One, Graton, CA
Invitational 3, Graton Gallery, Graton, CA
Weather Report, Petaluma Arts Center, Petaluma, CA (Jurors Choice Award)
2007
People In Context, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
Small Works, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
1987
Big Art, billboard, Arts Festival of Atlanta
A Political Art Show, Mattress Factory, Atlanta, GA
1986
Technologica E Informatica, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Sex, Esoterica Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1981
Nassau Visions Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1980
Stamp Art, Gaglione Press, San Francisco, CA
Not Sold In Stores, AWAC Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1979
Beo/Senoj, Colony Square Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1978
Magnetic Image National Video Exhibition, Atlanta, GA
1-2-3 Shoe Repair Show, Atlanta, GA
O T H E R M E D I A
“Overbody”, with Ben Howell Davis and George Hemphill, audio.
B I B L I O G R A P H Y
REVIEWS & ARTICLES:
”Ireland as Muse”, Connacht Tribune, 2019
“Arts Festival Goes Large”, Atlanta Journal, 1987
“Three Artists at Turner Broadcasting”, Robin Reidy, Art Papers, 1985
“Artist to Artist to Artist”, Art Papers, 1984
“Two Artists”, Clyde Burnett, Atlanta Constitution, 1978
“Magnetic Image”, exhibition catalog, 1977
ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS:
Beo, Senoj, Nexus Press, 1979
Stamp Art, Gaglione Press, 1979
Duplex Planet Illustrated, Fantagraphics, 1993
A Vast Knowledge of General Subjects, Fantagraphics, 1993
Dog People, Artisan Press, 2001
Galway Review, 2019
P R O F E S S I O N A L A F F I L I A T I O N S
Kinvara Area Visual Arts
Visual Artists Ireland