RESEARCH (Dexter Dalwood)

 Dexter Dalwood is a British artist, who works mainly with paintings and collages. My tutor James told me, Dexter was his tutor when he was studying at college!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 I like the way he's using colours and textures in his works. Cause for me colour is one of the most important points in art. I understand colour better than shape, so I liked him very much.

 His works has been featured in a variety of significant books and catalogues. Like Dexter Dalwood: Recent History (2006, Gagosian Gallery) or The Triumph of Painting (2005, Saatchi Gallery/Koenig Books).

Dexter Dalwood currently lives and works in London, England. Recently, the artist was shortlisted as one of the four nominees for the Turner Prize.

Although we have not visited the places Dalwood paints, they are familiar scenes or events ingrained in the public consciousness through media images and contemporary folklore. With this new series, Dalwood continues his exploration into unpopulated fictional interiors, often depicting critical moments of contemporary history or scenes of celebrity tragedy. He reinvigorates the genre of history painting, playing upon our fascination with the macabre and our obsessive intrigue with the lives of the famous. Characteristic of Dalwood's work is the inclusion of painterly elements or devices appropriated from well-known twentieth century artists, including Francis Bacon, Ed Ruscha and Morris Louis.

"It's hard to identify this urban-perfect scene as the suicide site of a grunge god; only the idle guitar and empty chair suggest that somebody is absent. Dexter Dalwood imagines his scenes with the up-close-impersonal sterility of Hello! magazine spotlights; everything needed to know about the person is in the paint. Like Magritte's Empire of Light, Kurt Cobain's Greenhouse is both day and night; a lot of time has been spent contemplating in this room. Bright-lights big-city success blares in the distance, the boughs in bloom offer unattainable promise on the other side of the glass. While inside there's only a corroded pipe and pathetic box of posies to signify trampled self-esteem. Dexter Dalwood's painting is an allegory of the fallacy of heroism."

Kurt Cobain's Greenhouse.