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JAKOB DWIGHT: SOLARWIND IN ARRAY
November 1 - December 27, 2024
SOLARWIND IN ARRAY, artist Jakob Dwight's second one-person exhibition with the gallery, presents a kind of naturalist abstraction that takes on mythopoetic or psychic landscape feel.
Dwight's paintings reference imaging overall in an era of advanced viewing that allows humankind to see things we've never seen before: MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), X-ray, satellite photography of our own planet and our universe, microscopy and computer models of wind or ocean currents and fluid dynamics.
A continuation of the themes of his recent one-person exhibition "A Trillion Verses" at the Wiregrass Museum in Dothan, Alabama, the paintings in "Solarwind in Array" are visual letters from the artist to the first ancestral naturalists - the first human observers and artists - relaying some of what we now know about our universe, the wonders of what surrounds us and is within us all at all times.
Most simply described as an ode to or a praising of the Sun, the exhibition title "Solarwind in Array" is a heliocentric expression for how our experience and biological life overall might poetically be described: as electromagnetic energized wind from the sun speeding through our sphere where it slows for eons and is temporarily superorganized into a beautiful and vast array of forms before eventually dissipating back out into the ever-expanding universe.
And perhaps consciousness itself could be described as an instance of 'solarwind in array' in that one theory of what consciousness could be - and scientists barely know what it is - is the interplay of the electromagnetic field and our brain and its array of trillions of neurons and synapses.
Jakob Dwight
An Anterior Silent Vocal
2024
acrylic on canvas
60 by 48 in. (ca. 152,4 by 122 cm)
Jakob Dwight
Flowers of Air
2024
acrylic on canvas
60 by 48 in. (ca. 152,4 by 122 cm)
Jakob Dwight
An Anterior Hyperfocus
2024
acrylic on canvas
40 by 30 in. (ca. 101,6 by 76,2 cm)
private US collection
Jakob Dwight
Sights of the Naturalist
2024
acrylic on canvas
40 by 30 in. (ca. 101,6 by 76,2 cm)
Jakob Dwight
Thought of a Flower
2024
acrylic on canvas
40 by 30 in. (ca. 101,6 by 76,2 cm)
Jakob Dwight
Synchronous Firing
2024
acrylic on canvas
14 by 7 in. (ca. 35,6 by 17,8 cm)
private US collection
Jakob Dwight
A Single Wing
2024
acrylic on canvas
14 by 7 in. (ca. 35,6 by 17,8 cm)
private US collection
Jakob Dwight
Auroric Thought
2024
acrylic on canvas
14 by 7 in. (ca. 35,6 by 17,8 cm)
private US collection
Jakob Dwight
The Tempest
2023
acrylic on canvas
65 by 50 in. (ca. 165,1 by 127 cm)
private US collection
Jakob Dwight
Nokta: Solarwind
2023
acrylic on canvas
20 by 16 in. (ca. 50,8 by 40,6 cm)
Jakob Dwight
Array
2023
acrylic on canvas
65 by 50 in. (ca. 165,1 by 127 cm)
Jakob Dwight
Study for Audible Serpentine Majesty
2023
acrylic on canvas
20 by 16 in. (ca. 50,8 by 40,6 cm)
Jakob Dwight
The Deeptime Solace of a Black Analysand
2022
acrylic on canvas
67 by 50.25 in. (ca. 170,2 by 127,6 cm)