Armory 2024

Darby Milbrath

September 5th - 8th, 2024
Booth F29 ☆

Pangée is thrilled to share a solo presentation of Darby Milbrath (b. 1985) at the 2024 edition of The Armory Show.

Milbrath is a Victoria, British Columbia based artist who approaches painting as a meditative, intuitive, and ultimately transcendent act to visualize the spiritual sublimity of nature. Informed by movement, music, and embodiment, figures and flora emerge in cascading formations within abstract environments, communicating states of exaltation. Milbrath builds up her canvases with colours and representational imagery. She then obliterates parts or whole elements, adding new ones over top, creating a cycle of constructing and deconstructing a painting. A figure may become covered in vines and flowers, or washed away with mineral spirits, leaving traces of what was once there. In this way, Milbrath engages with creative intuition, setting aside control and allowing movement, paint, and colour to lead her.