Marking his first solo exhibition after ten years, Dary Feril reckons with a lifetime of artistic and personal journeying in Wayfarer. The title refers to traveling, often on foot, and suggests a sense of unhurriedness and depth in making one’s way through the world. The artist deploys this to allude to a biographical milieu distinctly itinerant in character, foregrounded in this show that is at once a celebration of his creative practice and a reckoning of his childhood.

Across the gallery, Feril’s works trace the decades-long progression of his artmaking. Beginning as a digital illustrator and designer for commercial clients, he initially sought to distinguish this from his visual arts practice, believing himself not yet qualified for the latter. His first artworks, consequently, were markedly stripped of color in an effort to distance them from the vibrant palette of his commercial pieces. Yet from small graphite works constituting his earliest body of work, he gradually gathered courage to foray into color and scale—culminating in this present series of large acrylic paintings that demonstrate his recent explorations with color.