Paul Verdell
Trailing Away
February 19 - March 25, 2023
1217 71ST Street, Miami beach, fl 33141
Paul Verdell: Trailing Away
Jupiter Contemporary
February 19 - March 25, 2023
Opening reception: February 19, 6-8 PM
1217 71st Street, Miami Beach, FL 33141
Jupiter Contemporary is pleased to present Trailing Away, a solo exhibition of new work by Detroit-based artist Paul Verdell. Over the course of his artistic practice—from his earlier portraits and narrative painting to his more recent sunsets and seascapes—painting and drawing have always served as a way for Verdell to understand not only the world, but also himself.
The works on view all take as their inspiration the ocean view from Verdell’s studio window at Black Rock Senegal, the artist-in-residence program founded by Kehinde Wiley inDakar, where Verdell spent 1 month this past fall. Watching the crashing waves, speckled with surfers, swimmers, and boats crossing the sea, Verdell was inspired to digress from the far more representational approach to painting that has characterized much of his past work and instead dive headlong into abstraction.