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Verne Dawson

2000

Verne Dawson is a Triangle France Resident in 2000. The archives of Triangle-Astérides do not allow for the determination of the exact dates or the duration of this residency in 2000.

Verne Dawson was born in 1955 in Alabama (US)
Verne Dawson paints chimeric landscapes and cosmological scenes that attend to timekeeping and the structures—both ancient and contemporary—that govern everyday life. Evoking the fantastical worlds of Hieronymus Bosch and the formal reductiveness of folk and so-called “outsider” artists, Dawson’s oils imbue abstraction with a creatural spirit and figuration with the expansiveness of expressionism. Working from observation and memory, as well as improvisationally, the artist uses loose brushstrokes to reflect on the symbols, belief systems, and stories that inform the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Dawson lives between New York and North Carolina.
Recent solo exhibitions include Karma, New York (2025, 2022); Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (2023); Gavin Brown’s Enterprise (2019, 2017); Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2016); Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (2016); and Victoria Miro, London (2013). Dawson’s work was included in the Yokohama Triennial (2011), the Whitney Biennial (2010), the Lyon Biennial (2006), and the Venice Biennial (2003).