Devin Farrand

Devin Farrand was raised in a family of builders. Growing up in rural Oregon, he quickly became part of a tradition rooted in generations of exploring craftsmanship and manufacturing. The perceptual nuance of the work is developed through a process that pays tribute to the artist’s personal lineage–building cars, boats and musical instruments–while setting out to create a distinctive vernacular. Inspired by the intersection of aesthetics and production, shop equipment and industrial materials are transformed into streamlined minimal objects.
The cinematic quality of Farrand’s paintings and marble plates heightens these transformations and converges with a calm crystallization of time that washes over the work. His refinement of these forms become stand-ins for and allusions to idealized models. Deeply personal, Farrand’s work bridges the experience of the physical and metaphysical, shifting the viewer’s sense of time, and slowing the impulse for distraction. Farrand’s rendering of silence, of felled forms, is an evocation of intuitive steadfastness, a commitment to commanding beauty.