Andrew Dadson

“The Brink” is the Henry Art Gallery’s biennial award spotlighting an emerging Northwest artist; this year’s recipient is Vancouver, B.C. resident Andrew Dadson. This first solo museum exhibition of his work focuses on Dadson’s intensive use and fascination with “the material and the metaphor of the monochrome.” Dadson is interested in zones and boundaries: He photographs lawns painted in solid colors, and applies thick layers of paint to multiple standing canvases which lean against walls and each other. As the Henry notes, “These works suggest voids that have become part of a mysterious, and possibly contentious, narrative.”