• Dominic Musa - Unsettled Waters

    June 8 - 29, 2021

     

     
  • Taymour Grahne Projects is pleased to present Unsettled Waters, an online solo exhibition by New Jersey based artist Dominic Musa,...

    Taymour Grahne Projects is pleased to present Unsettled Waters, an online solo exhibition by New Jersey based artist Dominic Musa, opening virtually on June 8, 2021.
  • DOMINIC MUSA B. 1989 Lives and works in Paterson, NJ. Dominic Musa received a MFA from Rhode Island School of...

    DOMINIC MUSA

    B. 1989

    Lives and works in Paterson, NJ.

     

    Dominic Musa received a MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from School of Visual Arts in New York. Past solo exhibitions include Y2K Group (NYC) and Helena Anrather Gallery (NYC) and has an upcoming solo exhibition with Galerie Nicolas Roberts (Montreal, Canada). His past group exhibitions include: Beach, Taymour Grahne Projects (London, UK); Still Life, curated by Helena Anrather and Megan Yuan, Drawer (online); Highway Blues, curated by JJ Manford, Underdonk (Brooklyn, NY); Bloom, Over Under Room (Brooklyn, NY); In the Summer Time, Danese/ Corey Gallery, curated by Brent Auxier (NYC). Dominic is represented by Y2K Group in NYC.

    • Dominic Musa’s paintings depict divergent memories from his life, tying the past to present among the mundane to prodigious experiences. He explores the psyche in a collective way through invention, peripheral observation, and personal reflection by blending experiences from his life with lost and found memories from photographs.

    • His paintings reveal autobiographical scenes combined with aspects of painterly fiction, found/personal photographs, and art history. Musa believes in paint as a vehicle for self-reflection and as a means of manifesting a psychological space that would otherwise be inaccessible.

    • The paint is continually layered with marks withdrawn and then reconstructed to create images straddling the recognizable and the abstract with shared reality and fiction. Many of the figures seen in this new body of work are fixated in their own worlds, both real and invented, either turning away unsettled in their thoughts or focused on their present realities in communion with one another. 
  • This work was inspired by the El Greco painting “St. Sebastian and the Beggar”. I was interested in the idea...

    This work was inspired by the El Greco painting “St. Sebastian and the Beggar”. I was interested in the idea of how an image can equalize a Saint and a Beggar through composition, but the hierarchy remains due to the saint riding the horse.
  • I have always been interested in the idea of the painter as the investigator. Here, three detective figures are in...

    I have always been interested in the idea of the painter as the investigator. Here, three detective figures are in the act of investigating. I was interested in the connection of creation and the search, of the crime investigator and the visual investigator.

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