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Devon DeJardin explores the self and the global pandemic through tempestuous abstractions
Devon DeJardin, Between The Veil.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.- The second solo exhibition from Los Angeles based multimedia artist Devon DeJardin opened at DENK gallery in April. Umgestalter, consists of twenty new works on canvas, paper, and sculpture that complement and evolve from the Guardians series that rose DeJardin to prominence in 2018.
Contrasting the figurative fullness of his Guardians series, DeJardins new body of abstracted work reflects the current era of pandemic-related strife, and encapsulates the uncertainty faced by all of us, as we wrestle with questions of the future.
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Children play on ruins of al-Kfeir in Syria, March 24, 2021. So many people have fled to Syrias crowded northwest during the countrys 10-year civil war that families have settled in important archaeological sites. Ivor Prickett/The New York Times.
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.- As the sun set, children in dirty clothes and battered shoes herded sheep past the towering stone walls of a Byzantine settlement abandoned more than 1,000 years ago, leading them into a nearby ancient cave where the animals would spend the night. Laundry hung near the semicylindrical wall of a ruined, centuries-old church. Vegetables grew between the remnants of two rectangular doorways ornamented with carved leaf patterns. Scattered about were giant cut stones from what had once been an extensive town. It was here, at the vast archaeological site of al-Kfeir, Syria, where Abu Ramadan and his family sought shelter more than a year ago after fleeing a Syria
Devon DeJardin: Umgestalter (Shifter of Shapes) April 17-May 9, 2021 at DENK, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Multimedia artist Devon DeJardin explores the self and the global pandemic through .