SHAUN DOWNEY - A Voyeur's View

UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / ARCADIA CONTEMPORARY

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The impact the pandemic has had on many artists’ work continues to reveal itself. It is as if a certain distance needed to open up between the immediacy of the experience and the art created during it for artists to be able step back from the canvas and the effects come into focus.

Canadian artist Shaun Downey is no exception. Known for his interior scenes— often featuring a woman alone in an apartment unaware she is being “watched”—the pandemic, as it did for many of us, drove him outdoors to explore his neighborhood in a way he hadn’t before. His discoveries inform a lot of the new paintings in his upcoming show at Arcadia Contemporary, Night Shift.