Dallas, Texas — Kristy Stubbs Gallery Director James French is pleased to announce Morning Light, a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by acclaimed Canadian artist Ben Woolfitt. The exhibition marks Woolfitt’s first major showing in Dallas, and highlights his decades-long pursuit of non-objective abstraction and emotional resonance through material layering. It is the thirty-first solo presentation of his distinguished career.
His works on paper, a meditative act completed each morning, employ frottage with graphite, dry pigment, and silver leaf to register the impressions of wire mesh and textured materials, yielding compositions that are both tactile and profoundly personal. Ben Woolfitt’s paintings are distinguished by their intricately layered surfaces—sometimes built up through more than 120 applications of acrylic medium—that conjure memory, emotion, and metaphysical reflection.
This exhibition builds on Woolfitt’s acclaimed presentations at David Richard Gallery in New York and Loch Gallery in Toronto, his solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Tokyo Consulate of Canada, and looks ahead to the forthcoming release of his fourth book by art critic Donald Kuspit, Art as a Defense Against Death and Personal Loss: Ben Woolfitt’s Alchemical Drawings.
