Ian Kimmerly: Some Quieter Melody

Dolby Chadwick Gallery is pleased to present _Some Quieter Melody_, an exhibition of recent paintings by San Francisco–based artist Ian Kimmerly, on view throughout September. Confident brushstrokes, constellations of color, and figures rendered through fragments and repetition converge in Kimmerly's latest works, creating mesmerizing, layered compositions whose meanings emerge over time. Kimmerly holds a sustained interest in the intricacies of human connection. A thread of intimate, familiar, and evocative depictions can be traced throughout his practice. In this body of work, he shifts his lens to the ruptures in our bonds, caused by economic and political systems that benefit from division, and to the meaning and beauty we create from our increasing fragmentation. The exhibition title quotes Polish writer and activist Olga Tokarczuk. In her Nobel Lecture, _The Tender Narrator_, she argues for a "fourth-person" perspective—an antidote to the fragm...