Fri, Sep 5, 2025 → Sat, Oct 18, 2025
David Shelton Gallery is pleased to present "Blueblack Morning," the fourth solo exhibition at the gallery by Brooklyn-based artist Benjamin Edmiston. His latest body of work, which includes both intimate and medium-scale paintings, evokes morning light as a symbol of new beginnings through a range of colors, forms and compositions that he associates with daybreak.
The paintings on view emerge from a process in which Edmiston begins each work and then leaves it unfinished, allowing it to dry and linger in the studio for weeks, or even months, before returning to it. Upon revisiting each work, he discovers new ideas and inspirations beyond his original conception - effectively granting each painting a renewed beginning. Edmiston’s paintings represent a dialogue between distinct moments in time - an experience familiar to anyone who has observed the same place or object under shifting conditions of light, season, weather, or one’s own particular mood. The title of the show, a reference to a line in Robert Hayden’s poem, titled “Those Winter Sundays”, underscores the importance of time in the artist's creative process and his desire to capture multiple vantage points, or seasons, with a single painting.
Presented alongside the paintings are two series of drawings the artist refers to as clusters. A consistent feature of his practice, these works explore new dimensions of scale and shape, incorporating tondos - or circular forms – into his pared-down vocabulary of ink drawings. Much like the paintings, the works on paper also build over time into a larger, more complex whole.
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