The Pearls series is a collection of oil paintings that explores the journey of creation, acknowledging discomfort, embracing imperfection and the need for grit. Through transparent glazes, scratched details, and various paint events we see into the layered surfaces like gems. Each piece invites viewers to contemplate the interplay between struggle and triumph, emotion and intellect, darkness and light.
Read MoreField of Dreams: NYC Solo Exhibition
Upsilon Gallery is pleased to announce, "Field of Dreams," the first major solo show and official New York City debut of American artist Duane Bousfield. The exhibition will offer a retrospective view of the artist's career to-date, featuring a selection of contemporary and historical artworks, including large-scale paintings and intimate works on paper. An opening reception will be held on February 29, 6 - 8pm.
Read MoreDream Lines Exhibition
Dream Lines
Spring 2023: Solo exhibit, inner gallery.
8May-30Jun OVR: Calligraphs
Upsilon Gallery
23 E. 67 Street 3fl.
New York, NY 10065
+1 (646) 476-4190
info@upsilongallery.com
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Retrospective Monograph
Retrospective Monograph showing the development of Bousfield’s style from early drawings to fully developed oil paintings.
Read MoreIn Search of the Spiritual
Spiritual art is a search for the divinity inside, the seed that built us, the light that gives us life. I spent years developing a style of abstraction as detailed as realism to reflect deeply personal, universal themes.
Read MorePieces of Summer
Inspired by Josef Albers’ Homage to a Square series,
these minimal, abstract expressionist originals
radiate the Joy of Summer all year long.
Worshiping the Ground
This is a window into a glowing world of encouragement through adversity.
Like a bright sunshiny morning, this painting is about beginnings.
On my first day of Kindergarten I ran under a table and cried...
Beginnings are hard!
123 Art Magazine Interview
123Art Magazine requested an interview with me about my art, process and life. The article was published in their March 2021 edition. It is posted here in its entirety.
Read MoreMoons
Celebrating Moons, Night, Winter & Renewal.
As the world emerges from our long night of Covid sequester, the Moon is a comforting reminder that light and life return. Minimalist moon paintings are meditative mandalas to remind us of Spring, reawakening & rejuvenation.
Labyrinth Decoded
My painting Labyrinth is a mandala of sorts. It is not a place of answers, but episodes in a non-linear journey. The abstracted figures illustrate forces and concerns in our life path. Labyrinths have long symbolized ’The Unconscious’ that keeps our animal nature, the Minotaur, safe from polite society.
Read MoreInspirations
Seeing what someone else has done inspires us by making it seem possible, and by making us seem less idiotic for following our passions. Passion pulls us without resistance, like the Taoist path, passively pursuing its charms. Inspiration ignites possibilities by allowing us to envision the future.
Read MoreRepresentational Art
Photographic likeness is only one form of representation. Abstract art expresses the artist’s inner feelings and spirit, likes & dislikes - thus represents those feelings, spirit & preferences.. Expression needn’t be interpreted, translated into words or communicate, but it still represents.
Read MoreArtistic Breakthrough
Why do bad things happen to good people? The Greeks believed that ‘Challenges’ happen to good people. And that the God’s are making you stronger by formidable competition. Now lemonade is my favorite drink!
Read MoreArt in the Age of Covid
2020 is a watershed year for the world. Covid hit us hard in NYC and I sent this post as healing. For me the sequester was an art retreat where I developed a style that is the distilled essence of 35 years of making art: Labyrinths & Eternity Knots.
Read MoreArt is a Window into a Soul
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter." - Oscar Wilde
Art resonates the inner life of the maker.
Interpreting a work of art is a reflection of the viewer.
Abstraction to Realism and Back
In 2018 & 2019 I went on a realism kick and developed an enormous respect for Still Life & Landscape painting.
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