Dana Powell: The Moon Is Still Free
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery•Apr 24, 2025 — May 30, 2025
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Two bright lights look the viewer in the eye — headlights reflecting off tarmac, pooling pinkish light. A fraction of a car is visible; the rest of the landscape recedes into darkness. Titled Rest Stop, the painting depicts an everyday location, a typical highway roadside. The eerie, deserted, non-place is grained by the warp and weft of the linen canvas. Like a memory or a photo negative, the image is ephemeral and escaping.
Dana Powell’s intimate paintings are curiously uninhabited, and yet they are littered with the traces of human life. Highways stretch into the twilight, utility lines peek over trees, headlights shine out of the dark, the landscape unfurling like a dream half-remembered. Rather than looking forward, towards the vanishing point of the iconic American road trip, Powell’s gaze is pulled upwards to the moon. As she maps this geography of displacement, her eye finds wonder and respite in the natural world, capturing the tiny miracles of a sunset or...More
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Dana Powell: The Moon Is Still Free
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery•Apr 24, 2025 — May 30, 2025
Press Release
Two bright lights look the viewer in the eye — headlights reflecting off tarmac, pooling pinkish light. A fraction of a car is visible; the rest of the landscape recedes into darkness. Titled Rest Stop, the painting depicts an everyday location, a typical highway roadside. The eerie, deserted, non-place is grained by the warp and weft of the linen canvas. Like a memory or a photo negative, the image is ephemeral and escaping.
Dana Powell’s intimate paintings are curiously uninhabited, and yet they are littered with the traces of human life. Highways stretch into the twilight, utility lines peek over trees, headlights shine out of the dark, the landscape unfurling like a dream half-remembered. Rather than looking forward, towards the vanishing point of the iconic American road trip, Powell’s gaze is pulled upwards to the moon. As she maps this geography of displacement, her eye finds wonder and respite in the natural world, capturing the tiny miracles of a sunset or...More
