Luke Dougherty’s paintings feel less like declarations and more like exploratory exercises in dream, sensation and memory. From one to another, his work moves between abstraction and representation, as if neither genre can fully encompass Dougherty’s desire to articulate his experience of the world.
In choosing a title for his show, Dougherty found the line “Here a mist, there a mist” in Emily Dickenson’s poem "Our share of night to bear (113)". It encapsulates the interplay of perception, abstraction, and dreamlike ambiguity that defines this exhibition. He says “for me the sense of mist is in my paintings, also it’s a really simple little poem about wonders and hurdles.”
June 28th - July 27th at Hawk + Hive, Andes, NY
