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Lorimoto Gallery is excited to present “regular” by Doug Parry .

The Cedar Tavern was a legendary watering hole where NYC Avant-garde artists / writers / philosophers congregated every night. During its heyday of the late 50’s ~ 70’s , patrons such as Robert Motherwell , Jackson Pollock , Mark Rothko , Willem de Kooning , Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac amongst other pioneers of culture socialized and argued over drinks night after night.

Doug Parry is originally from Seattle WA. A Collage football player of the University of Washington who moved to NYC in 1997 as an aspiring painter.

Doug entered the Cedar Tavern knowing its glorious past but found out its luster had been long gone . Now a popular dive bar for locals who cherished cheap drinks in a now expensive neighborhood of Greenwich Village. Doug took a liking of its broken-in feel of the Cedar Tavern and worked as a bartender, living his dream of a “NYC starving artist life” as many of us know.

Doug Parry created this ghostly collection of new drawings solely from what he remembered seeing while bartending at the Cedar Tavern in New York between 2000 and 2004. Like a medium in a trance, Parry conjured his subjects by closing his eyes and waiting for bits of imagery to start to form inhis mind.

The light and shadows at different times of day, different people’s expressions, their gestures,their clothing, cigarette smoke caught in the beams of the bar lights—all spring back to life, carefully reassembled in these heavily worked graphite drawings. Parry revisited each memory for three to four weeks until what he saw in his mind completely matched what he drew. It took him nearly five years to complete the series.

Please join us to celebrate Doug’s return to NYC at the Opening Reception August 6th , 2022 1~5pm