| Denzil Hurley
was born in Barbados, West Indies in
1949. He studied at the Portland Museum Art School (B.F.A. 1975) and Yale
School of Art (M.F.A. 1979). Hurley has received a Guggenheim Fellowship
(1980), grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (1989, 1993), and a
Pollock-Krasner Fellowship (1989). His work was featured in a two-person
show at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX, 1998) and a solo show at
the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO, 2004). Hurley’s
work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including Short
Stories at the Henry Art Gallery (University of Washington, Seattle, WA,
2001), American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
(American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, 2002), and
International Abstraction (Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 2003-04).
Denzil
began conceptually and materially working with the ideas central to his
new paintings shortly after his solo show at the Seders Gallery in 2006.
By 2008, he was beginning to make the initial works that would
subsequently pass through necessary developments before being ready for
exhibition. Five new multi-panel paintings will be featured in the current
show. Denzil Hurley had a one-person exhibition at the Weatherspoon Art
Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina (2007) and a two-person show, 2
Coasts-2 Visions, with Glenn Goldberg at the Marist College Art
Gallery in Poughkeepsie, New York (2010). His work has been included in
All Things Equal at the Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University (curated
by Catharina Manchanda, Seattle Art Museum; 2011), The Armory
Show-Modern in New York (Danese Gallery booth; 2011), Works on
Paper, 2nd Annual Invitational at the Danese Gallery in New York
(2011), the Northwest Biennial at the Tacoma Art Museum (curated by
Rock Hushka, Tacoma Art Museum, and Alison de Lima Greene, Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston; 2009), Alchemy or Change at the University of Texas
at Dallas (curated by Lorraine Tady; 2008), Traces and Accumulations
at the Wright Exhibition Space in Seattle (curated by Rock Hushka, Tacoma
Art Museum; 2008), the Seattle Art Dealers Association Invitational
Exhibition at the Wright Exhibition Space (2008), and the 8th Northwest
Biennial at the Tacoma Art Museum (curated by Rock Hushka, Tacoma Art
Museum, and David Kiehl, Whitney Museum of American Art; 2007). Hurley was
a resident fellow at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk,
Connecticut, in 2010. |
