Placed presents:

Evening Almanac

A solo exhibition by Dante Gambardella and the culmination of the artist’s two-year residency at Archie Bray.

On View

Aug 8th - Sept 26th

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Taking as their source a garlic farm started by Gambardella upon his return to Montana from Philadelphia, these glaze landscape paintings record the changing psychological and physical contours of the countryside. Natural phenomena like snow, rain, wind, and time cause gradual changes to the familiar, inviting reflection at day’s end.

Each painting is made of large-scale clay tiles, a technique Gambardella refined at Archie Bray, where he designed a special drying table for even heat transfer to prevent cracks. These large canvases overwhelm the viewer with vistas that are neither purely abstract nor wholly representational, instead suggesting possible orientations. The result is the artist’s leveling of physical and psychological difference: geologic forms become too subjective to capture, mental ones too vast to map.