DARNstudio American, b. 2017

Overview
Snake In the Garden, 2017
Snake In the Garden, 2017

Formed in 2017, DARNstudio is an art/life collaboration of visual artists David Anthone and Ron Norsworthy.

 

"Our work investigates the built, designed, or otherwise manifested world we live in, breaks down its components and uncouples them from their implicit and inherited meaning(s). We then re-assemble in a way that disrupts its original function. "

 

DARNStudio's  work encourages alternative ways of understanding objects, ideas and structures through a process referred to as “re:meaning”. Through reassignment, remixing, inversion or juxtaposition, DARN’s work examines the purpose of things. These things may range from the macro and intangible (cultural institutions and norms) to the micro and concrete (mundane objects, words, expressions or phrases). Gleaning new meanings from these things in their disrupted reconfigurations  can spark new dialogue around the commonplace, the happenstance, and the “extraordinary ordinary”.  Their goal is to cast the familiar in an unexpected context so that it may be seen in an unfamiliar and new way.

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Biography
David Anthone (L) , Ron Norsworthy (R) | Image Courtesy | Laurie and Charles Photographs
David Anthone (L) , Ron Norsworthy (R) | Image Courtesy | Laurie and Charles Photographs

David Anthone (L) is an artist whose practice focuses on painting, conceptual work and readymades. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows. He received a B.A. in Architecture and Art History from University of Nebraska as  well as attended Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture with a  focus on Planning & Historic Preservation. David Anthone occupies unique  interstitial space as an artist with DARNstudio and a historic preservation officer  for the U.S. General Services Administration.  His art practice investigates   historical narratives and questions cultural norms while his government practice  revolves around urban planning, design, and construction within historic  preservation, public art and architecture.

 

Ron Norsworthy (R)  is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work exists at the  intersection of design and art. In addition to his work with DARNstudio, he is also known for his solo art practice, the iconic sets he created in music videos  and TV as well as his eponymously titled line of bedding and products for QVC  UK. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows and appeared in  various major  publications and media platforms over the past two decades. He  received his  B.A in Architecture from Princeton University.

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