
Great South Bay Sunset 8/10/19
2019
Rendered in pastel and gouache on paper, "Great South Bay Sunset 8/10/19" captures a specific moment of coastal light with the intimacy and urgency that has come to define TM Davy's practice. Composed as a diptych, the two panels together build a panoramic yet deeply personal vision of the Long Island shoreline, where the warm dissolution of a summer evening sky meets the quiet expanse of open water. The artist's choice of medium is deliberate: pastel lends a soft, atmospheric bloom to the color while gouache anchors passages in opaque, considered mark-making, the combination producing a surface that feels both immediate and meditative. Davy is known for working from direct observation and lived experience, and this piece bears the hallmarks of that commitment. The date embedded in the title functions less as documentation and more as a kind of devotional act, an insistence that this particular light, on this particular evening, deserves to be held and remembered. The result is a work that sits comfortably within the tradition of plein air observation while carrying a contemporary emotional register, one attuned to queer sensibility, tenderness, and the charged beauty of ordinary time. At 36 by 28 centimeters per panel, the work operates at a scale suited to close, private viewing, making it well suited to a collector seeking something genuinely felt rather than decorative. Currently presented through CFHILL, this piece represents a strong entry point into Davy's ongoing series of observational works, which have attracted sustained critical attention and institutional interest in recent years.
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- Pastel and gouache on paper
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- Spotted At
- Gallery · CFHILL
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