[Announcement for "Recent Drawings" by Danny Williams, 2009] Page: 2 of 3
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Drawing in a landscape so carefully described by major talents such as Corot, Turner, Monet,
Sisley, Millet, Pissarro, and Marquet, I've tried to find a course between Romanticism and
Precisionist renderings. Neither the picturesque nor the strictly factual suited my needs.
Though I sometimes attempted to open my eyes with the scrutiny of a camera, it was
always with the broad vocabulary of drawing in mind.
Foremost, I've wished to be responsive to the subjective motivations at work when
interpreting a landscape. These drawings are specific to a very particular period in my life.
Just as time reshapes the features of any topography, so living shades our capacity to know
and understand the world. It is not photographic representation I seek, but a convincing
parallel reality-the record of a private domain recast by forceful individual experience.
-Danny Williams
France & Elsewhere
Recent Drawings by Danny Williams
26 October through 5 December 2009
Reception for the artist
Saturday 5 December, 5 to 7 p.m.
Pollock Gallery
Division of Art
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
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