Jupiter is pleased to present Trailing Away, by Detroit-based artist Paul Verdell, a new series of works created in his home in Detroit and during his residency at Black Rock in Senegal this past fall. With these new works, he experiments freely with gesture and application through a constant cycle of creation to create these captivating panoramas.
Among the season’s sixteen international artists, Paul Verdell was one of the five chosen from the United States to live and work in Dakar, Senegal for the prestigious Black Rock artist-in-residence program.
While at Black Rock, Verdell was inspired by the seascapes that encompassed him. He was a constant witness of the crashing waves of the ocean, the surfers and boats that navigated over the water, and the intensity of the sunsets that the window from his studio overlooked. Surrounded by these seascapes, he decided to abandon the paintbrush and opt for oil bars, that deliver more intense trails of pigment.
Paul Verdell (b. 1991, Long Beach, CA), currently based in Detroit, has exhibited widely throughout the United States at Library Street Collective, Detroit; Desert Center, Los Angeles; Louis Buhl & Co., Detroit; o-oLA, Los Angeles; Quappiprojects, Louisville; False Cast Gallery, San Diego; River House Arts, Toledo; and Walter E Terhune Gallery, Perrysburg, Ohio; amongst others. He earned his BFA from Bowling Green State University, Ohio, and was an artist in residence at Black Rock Senegal in 2022.