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Towards Night explores the nocturnal through paintings, prints and drawings by over sixty artists. Drawing on the nineteenth century European Romantic tradition, the show surveys contemporary and historical connections to wonderment and dystopia at dusk, twilight, night and dawn. Towards Night juxtaposes key paintings and prints by Constable, Friedrich, Munch, Nolde, Palmer and Turner, some of the best known visionaries of the Romantic tradition with contemporary artists who work with the transformative aspects of nightfall to convey emotional responses of awe, anxiety and solitude, love and loss, revelry, insomnia, and journey’s end. Tom Hammick, curator of Towards Night said “This exhibition has grown way beyond its original conception, to become a magnificent survey of painting and printmaking from over two hundred years based around the central tenet of night. The exhibition is a kind of painterly response to the way figurative artists use their artistic heroes as starting points for their own work, both compositionally and emotionally.” A Flowers Gallery review, © 2016 I Dread To Think A group exhibition curated by Liz Blum Mills Gallery, Boston Centre for the Arts January 2017 A Foundation of Ash Solo exhibition Dylan Ellis Gallery, Toronto, ON April 2017 I Dread To Think A group exhibition curated by Liz Blum Dorsky Gallery, Queens, NY September 2017
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