A suburban garage with an open garage door, framing a large wall with various framed artworks.

Perry Doane, Low in the Field
opening reception June 17, 2023 2–5pm
on view June 17–July 15, 2023
open most Saturdays 10–2 or by appointment
 

"I want to think this is all going to work out but like the guy says: 'nobody gets through this life alive.'"

My whole life we've been at war. We've been at war against Drugs; against Terror; against Crime. We've been at war for Oil; for Stability; for Capital. It's always someplace else, but it's also always present: a shadow slightly out of step. If it ever really goes off, we're all toast.

Perry Doane's Low in the Field is haunted by the specter of war: history, heraldry, futility, and death rendered mundane by sheer scale. The chemical-stained surfaces of small, ghostly photographs hover just at the edge of recognition. A diamond screen, corroded and clouded. Heavily processed, the work in Low in the Field carries touch, time, and memory in its surfaces. It's time spent with the ghosts—melancholy, perhaps, but also beautiful.

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A suburban garage with an open garage door, framing a large wall with various framed artworks.
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
Various framed artworks including small photographic prints.
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
Screenprinted panel with a diamond pattern.
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
The reverse side of the wall with a large piece of striped fabric screenprinted with an image of a hand holding an olive branch, and two framed screenprints on panels.
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A close up of the fabric screenprinted with an image of a hand holding an olive branch and a shack in a bush.
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
Booklets and ephemera on a table
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A screenprinted image of a large tree.
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A screenprinted image of a large tree, a shack just visible through the foliage.
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A silkscreened diamond pattern in gold and black.
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A silkscreened diamond pattern in gold and black.
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A blue dyed silver gelatin print of a blurry machine.
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A blue dyed silver gelatin print of a hedge.
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A blue dyed silver gelatin print of a machine.
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A blue dyed silver gelatin print of a hedge.
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A blue dyed silver gelatin print of a machine.
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A blue dyed silver gelatin print of a machine.
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A blue dyed silver gelatin print of a grid.
Perry Doane, Low in the Field. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.

Perry Doane lives in Sonoma County. He enjoys exploring complex systems through his process-heavy multimedia practice. Transitions between hand and mechanical, and photographic and physical processes, direct a form of guided meditation. Perry has exhibited at escolar, Santa Rosa, CA; Ditch Projects, Eugene, OR; and Fourteen30 Contemporary, Carl & Sloan, and Rocks Box, Portland, OR. He holds an MFA in Studio Practice from Portland State University.