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DANNY FERRELL

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17 March - 23 April 2022
  • DANNY FERRELL

    CASTLE IN THE SKY

    17 March - 23 April 2022

  • Miles McEnery Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Danny Ferrell on view through 23 April 2022. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated digital publication featuring an essay by Lauren O’Neill-Butler and conversation with Shona McAndrew.

     

  • Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Danny Ferrell: Castle in the Sky," 17 March - 23 April 2022. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Danny Ferrell: Castle in the Sky," 17 March - 23 April 2022. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Danny Ferrell: Castle in the Sky," 17 March - 23 April 2022. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Danny Ferrell: Castle in the Sky," 17 March - 23 April 2022. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Danny Ferrell: Castle in the Sky," 17 March - 23 April 2022. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Danny Ferrell: Castle in the Sky," 17 March - 23 April 2022. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Danny Ferrell: Castle in the Sky," 17 March - 23 April 2022. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Danny Ferrell: Castle in the Sky," 17 March - 23 April 2022. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Danny Ferrell: Castle in the Sky," 17 March - 23 April 2022. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Danny Ferrell: Castle in the Sky," 17 March - 23 April 2022. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Danny Ferrell: Castle in the Sky," 17 March - 23 April 2022. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Danny Ferrell: Castle in the Sky," 17 March - 23 April 2022. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Danny Ferrell: Castle in the Sky," 17 March - 23 April 2022.

  • 'Ferrell’s works depict gay men living their lives at ease and doing ordinary things, but through a wonderful sense of...
    Danny Ferrell
    Touch-Up, 2022
    Oil on canvas
    84 x 60 inches
    213.4 x 152.4 cm

    "Ferrell’s works depict gay men living their lives at ease and doing ordinary things, but through a wonderful sense of immortality. These paintings emphasize that a queer person, just like every living being, is permitted to have an existence full of ordinary moments—free from indignity, oppression, and hostility. I’d argue that Ferrell’s work is all about positive liberty—the possibility of acting, or the fact of acting, in such a way as to take control of one’s life. This, to me, makes his work slyly revolutionary."

    - Lauren O’Neill-Butler in "Quiet Freedoms"

  • "I am colorful and gregarious with an appreciation for beauty and humbled by the ineffable cosmic hand that imbues our world with magic. I am inspired by the clouds and the trees, flowers and their colors, men and fashion; I envy the sublime skyscapes of Tiepolo and Thomas Cole, the glorious visual theater of Christ’s Ascension; the camp photographs of Pierre et Gilles and the acid-washed aesthetic of Ed Paschke. I love the melodrama in George Tooker and the technical precision of Magritte. I long for what can't be said about painting and mourn that everything has to be mediated through language."

    -  Danny Ferrell

    • Danny Ferrell I Kiss Boys, 2021 Oil on canvas 84 x 60 inches 213.4 x 152.4 cm
      Danny Ferrell
      I Kiss Boys, 2021
      Oil on canvas
      84 x 60 inches
      213.4 x 152.4 cm
    • Danny Ferrell The Farmer's Son, 2022 Oil on canvas 80 x 68 inches 203.2 x 172.7 cm
      Danny Ferrell
      The Farmer's Son, 2022
      Oil on canvas
      80 x 68 inches
      203.2 x 172.7 cm
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  • Danny Ferrell Studio, 2021, Pittsburgh, PA

    Danny Ferrell Studio, 2021, Pittsburgh, PA

    • Danny Ferrell Arcadia, 2022 Color pencil on paper 48 x 38 3/8 inches 121.9 x 97.5 cm
      Danny Ferrell
      Arcadia, 2022
      Color pencil on paper
      48 x 38 3/8 inches
      121.9 x 97.5 cm
    • Danny Ferrell Living Proof , 2022 Color pencil on paper 48 1/16 x 38 3/8 inches 122.1 x 97.5 cm
      Danny Ferrell
      Living Proof , 2022
      Color pencil on paper
      48 1/16 x 38 3/8 inches
      122.1 x 97.5 cm
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  • Danny Ferrell Studio, 2021, Pittsburgh, PA

    Danny Ferrell Studio, 2021, Pittsburgh, PA

  • 'Color is incredibly important to me. So much so that I see color asserting itself as a secondary or tertiary...
    Danny Ferrell
    Retrograde, 2022
    Color pencil on paper
    48 3/16 x 38 3/8 inches
    122.4 x 97.5 cm

    "Color is incredibly important to me. So much so that I see color asserting itself as a secondary or tertiary character in the painting—a component with as much life and vitality as the figures I am depicting. Color also allows my work to have a particular sense of mood and creates an indeterminate sense of time and place. I see the paintings emerging from the intersection of emotional content and formalism, so the ways in which color, light, and surface interact with personal identity are all crucial to my practice."

    - Danny Ferrell

    • Danny Ferrell The Night Shift, 2022 Oil on canvas stretched over panel 24 x 20 inches 61.4 x 51.1 cm
      Danny Ferrell
      The Night Shift, 2022
      Oil on canvas stretched over panel
      24 x 20 inches
      61.4 x 51.1 cm
    • Danny Ferrell Straw Halo, 2022 Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches 61 x 50.8 cm
      Danny Ferrell
      Straw Halo, 2022
      Oil on canvas
      24 x 20 inches
      61 x 50.8 cm
    • Danny Ferrell The Substitute, 2022 Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches 61 x 50.8 cm
      Danny Ferrell
      The Substitute, 2022
      Oil on canvas
      24 x 20 inches
      61 x 50.8 cm
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  • Danny Ferrell Studio, 2021, Pittsburgh, PA

    Danny Ferrell Studio, 2021, Pittsburgh, PA

  • DANNY FERRELL (b. 1991, Flint, MI) received his Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence,...

    Danny Ferrell in his Studio, 2021, Pittsburgh, PA

    DANNY FERRELL (b. 1991, Flint, MI) received his Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA.

     

    Recent solo exhibitions include“Castle in the Sky,” Miles McEnery Gallery, NewYork,NY (forthcoming); “Honey,” Marinaro, NewYork,NY; “Magic Hour,” Galerie PACT, Paris, France; “Behind the Curtain” (with Hiba Schahbaz and Sophia Narrett), Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL;“Solo Booth,” NewArt DealersAlliance, Galerie PACT, NewYork,NY; “He’s American” (with Devan Shimoyama), Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, and “Cakes,” Patterson Gallery, State College, PA.

     

    Recent group exhibitions include “Just As I Am,” 1969 Gallery, New York, NY; “Sound and Color” (curated by Brian Alfred), Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Vortex” (curated by Allison Zuckerman), Kravets Wehby, New York, NY; “Surely Some Revelation Is At Hand,” Marinaro, NewYork, NY;“Sit Still” (curated by Patty Horing and Deborah Brown), Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY;“After and Because Of,” Marsh Gallery, Indiana Unversity, Indianapolis, IN; “Bathers,” Bass and Rainer, San Francisco, CA; “Bang On,” Divine Hammer, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME; “Potpourri,” Neumann Wolfson Fine Art, New York, NY; “Artist Who Teach,” Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA; “Life’s Rich Pageant,” Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY; “The Staging of Vulernability,” SPRING/BREAK Art Show, 4 Times Square, NY; “Canon Fodder,” Zoller Gallery, University Park, PA; “Vernacular Spectacular!,” Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI; “Intimacy Queered,” Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI; “RISD 2016 MFA Painting Thesis Exhibition,” Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY; “The Boston Biennial,” Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA; and “RISD Graduate Thesis,” Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI.

     

    He is the recipient of the Rhode Island School of Design Graduate Fellowship, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, and the Creative Achievement Award, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA.

     

    Ferrell lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. 

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