Strand Gallery
July 11 – October 4, 2020
This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.
Will Henry
Watching Paint Dry
Will Henry’s exhibition, Watching Paint Dry, features recent paintings that continue the artist’s exploration of the landscape, abstraction, and mark making. Henry’s work is rooted in the history of painting and features atmospheric landscapes with constellations of marks floating on their surface. His gestural swipes of color are the subject of Henry’s work and create a low-fi trompe l’oeil effect, with the cropped sections of the landscape serving as a backdrop for an unfolding narrative. Henry’s connection to these sparse vistas is uprooted by an overlay of lines, swipes, and scribbles, echoing the gestures made on the screens through which we often experience these spaces in contemporary life.
Will Henry is an artist based in Houston, TX. He received his BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997. His work has been included in exhibitions throughout Texas over the past twenty years, including solo exhibitions at Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston; the Southwest School of Art, San Antonio; and the Old Jail Art Center, Albany. Henry was a finalist for the Texas Prize in 2012 at the Austin Museum of Art. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Old Jail Art Center, Albany. He is represented by Hiram Butler Gallery in Houston, TX.
willhenryartist.com
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Exhibition Preview:
Click on the images below to see work from Will Henry’s exhibition. Photographs by Tom Dubrock.
