Doug Winter “Enter Light” is my first international solo exhibition. It is held at PRPGMX galleries in Mexico City from 02/10 to 03/12 during ZSONAMACO 2022. 

The PRPG residency in Mexico City accepted my application last year. They invited me to participate in their 2021 sessions. I found the feedback of Director Michael Swank during the artists’ critiques very valuable. Posting work for the weekly PRPG group critiques helped me ask essential questions. Most importantly, they informed my work’s narrative. I fought to work through and find the answers, and as a result, the project came into being. As a professional artist It’s so important not to operate in a vacuum.

Doug Winter “Entre Luz / Enter Light” solo exhibition was not on my mind after my second session with PRPG. Michael Swank, Director, and Curator, invited me to have a solo exhibition of my current project from February 10 to March 12, 2022, during ZSONAMACO at the PRPG photography gallery. 

As a result of Michael’s invitation for the solo show, I traveled to Mexico City in December. I stayed at the residency for ten days creating new work. I met artists and collectors in the local art community. During this trip, I acquired a new perspective. I witnessed a new method of working and participating within a community of artists and collectors. This trip informed my sense of community as an artist. PRPG.mx is a virtual and on-ground residency, and exhibition incubator program focused on Queer and Queer allied artists. 

The PRPG residency in Mexico City accepted my application last year. They invited me to participate in their 2021 sessions. I found the feedback of Director Michael Swank during the artists’ critiques very valuable. Posting work for the weekly PRPG group critiques helped me ask essential questions. Most importantly, they informed my work’s narrative. I fought to work through and find the answers, and as a result, the project came into being. It’s so important not to operate in a vacuum.

Doug Winter “Enter Light” solo exhibition was not on my mind after my second session with PRPG. But Michael invited me to have a solo exhibition of my current project from February 10 to March 12, 2022, during ZSONAMACO. As a result of Michael’s invitation for the solo show, I traveled to Mexico City in December. I stayed at the residency for ten days creating new work. As a result, I met artists and collectors in the local art community. During this trip I acquired a new perspective. I saw a new method of working and participating within a community of artists and collectors. This trip informed my sense of community as an artist. PRPG.mx is a virtual and on-ground residency and exhibition incubator program focussed on Queer and Queer allied artists. 

The Enter Luz (Enter Light) solo exhibition was met with enthusiasm in Mexico City.

Below is the documentation for this solo exhibition with press links. It was very important to be inclusive to the sight impaired so I made QR codes with Audio descriptions of the work placed next to the titles of the artworks. 

Florescence, in full sun, Day 190 (Spanish)

Full of Grace, Day 255 (English)

South of Greeley, Day 30 (English)

I created a sight-specific piece, “Full of Grace, Day 255” (vertical triptych), for the Chapel area of the gallery. The final piece of this artwork was made, and the entire triptych was conceived in Mexico City during my residency trip in December 2021. 

I created a short silent film titled, “Parade!” to run from a projector during the show. 

Video Description: This film is silent and contains no audio or text. This film includes four separate clips of varying lengths, which make up the two-minute and twenty-three-second film. The artist looped the movie three times to create a seven-minute and twenty-seven-second short film. A modified camera lens captures the forms and figures in the film; they are both obscured and abstract, nothing is in focus during the entire film.
The first clip opens with a bright white flare of light moving horizontally across the frame and diminishes as the camera moves upward, revealing a person wearing a yellow dress standing in nature. The greens, blues, and browns complement the yellow dress and the pale caucasian hand as it waves from side to side. The camera frames the person mid-thigh to just above their head. They stand in their yellow dress, waving over and over again, slow then fast, then slow again. As their hand stops waving and drops to the side of their body, the frame dissolves into the second clip. A nude figure of a woman backlit and mostly in silhouette with green and blue tones slowly walks from right to left, pushing and opening a large window shade in front of her as she walks. She steps out of the frame and returns, walking back the way she entered as she exits, the frame dissolves in the third clip. Awash of maroon, red, and off-white tones flash slightly, a pair of hazing white hands appear and move throughout the frame, circle themselves, the hands look like they are dancing with one another above the dark maroon background. A blue light flare appears at the lower-left corner and dissolves into the fourth and final clip. A window of soft blue-white and gray light appears a person’s lower legs and feet walk back and forth from left to right then right to left. The camera is filming from the floor level like a pair of shoes are watching the person pace back and forth, a bright white flare of light moving horizontally across the frame, and the entire film repeats. 

Opening night press video documentation. 

A commemorative collection of 1/1 NFTs for this solo exhibition in Mexico City is on OpenSea. Click on this link and go directly to the NFT collection.

Press Links:

La Razón    https://www.razon.com.mx/cultura/galerias-celebran-semana-arte-cdmx-470136

Reseña digital    https://www.resenadigital.com/?dir=noticias&id_seccion=10&id_noticia=7112

Aventuras     https://www.aventurasnerd.com/la-semanadearte2022-se-culmina-con-la-feria-zona-maco/

Rotativo en línea    https://rotativoenlinea.com/noticias/2022/02/09/muestra-fotografica-entre-luz-de-doug-winter

Hasta Adentro    https://www.facebook.com/HastaAdentroOficial/posts/3115012528721351

Cultura para todos    https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=5072116549515987&id=579451468782540