Dan Webb – Yespalier

Greg Kucera Gallery is excited to announce our fifth exhibition by Seattle artist, Dan Webb. The title for the exhibition, Yespalier, is a portmanteau of the English affirmative response, Yes, and Espalier, the French term for training a fruit tree to grow flat against a wall through the use of a lattice or frame-like structure. Each work in the exhibition begins with a frame on the wall on which the artist then trains his carved wood imagery into a low profile format.
“Whatever it’s about, however it ends, what the making of this work has shown me is that there
are no guarantees that anyone gets to make art every time they try… but they do get to make a
structure that supports the possibility of it. If I’m saying Yes to anything, it’s that. Making an
espalier, or a frame, or a base for a sculpture, is the part we get to control. Inviting art to inhabit
those places is the part we don’t. But when it does show up, if the espalier is good enough,
and strong enough, we get to pick the fruit.” -Dan Webb