Devin Farrand | Ochi Gallery

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. Finding structure and meaning through poetic contrasts and perspectival shifts, Farrand lives and works between a cabin in the mountains of rural Idaho and an industrial warehouse space on the outskirts of Los Angeles. To highlight the intrinsic and aesthetic properties of traditional and industrial production techniques, Farrand often employs abstraction in pursuit of affect, nostalgia, and the sublime. Using a wide range of skills—oil painting, marble carving, welding, sandblasting, anodizing, electroplating, and more—his material selections convey ontological relationships to the landscape. 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, marble works, and metal 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 and a commitment to commanding beauty.Devin Farrand (b.1986, Salem, Oregon) received an MFA in Ceramics from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, a BS in Art from Eastern Oregon University, and currently lives and works between rural Idaho and Los Angeles, CA. Farrand’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Casa M+B in Milan, Italy; Ibid Gallery in Los Angeles, CA and London, United Kingdom; Good Weather Gallery in North Little Rock, AR; Gallery Vacancy in Shanghai, China; BBQLA in Los Angeles, CA; New Release Gallery in New York, NY; Gallery Kornfeld in Berlin, Germany; Piasa in Paris, France; Enlace in Lima, Peru; and OCHI in Los Angeles, CA and Sun Valley, ID. Farrand’s work can be found in public collections including the Burger Collection in Hong Kong, China; Sishang Art Museum in Beijing China; SoHo House in Malibu, CA; New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan; Mercedes-Benz Financial Services in Farmington Hills, MI; and Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT. Farrand is represented by OCHI.