Drake Labry

My work started out as a concept. I wanted to capture my feelings of being connected to the ocean. For me, there are many layers to my work. What once started out as a memory of my youth has evolved into a representation of cycles. My work is a current that takes the viewer beyond the actual scales. The repetition represents a life's past, present, and future. We may not know where a current is going to take us, but we have no choice except to flow. 

The process I use to create my work is as important as my contribution to each piece. The unique curing of each polyurethane scale is as unknown to me as the viewer. I never have a set vision of the final piece. I always allow my work to evolve into what it will be. Like the levies in the gulf, I create boundaries for the pouring of the oil and polyurethane. But as we know, levies do not always hold and there can be an uncontrollable overflow that in the end creates beauty.  

It is believed that everything came from water, that it is the origin to life. Some even believe that water once destroyed all living things, but somehow life recycled and continued. My work contains what once was and what will be.

NOCCA/ 2001-2003 Fine Arts
UNO/ 2003-2004 Fine Arts
LSU/ 2004-2008 BA in Art & Design, Minor in Art & Architecture History

White Lights, Baton Rouge, LA/ 2007 Group
White Lights, Baton Rouge, LA/ 2008 Group
Stabbed in the ART, Baton Rouge, LA/ 2008 Group
The World is Your Oyster, Los Angeles, CA/ 2009 Solo
Nation of Imagine, Los Angeles, CA/ 2010 Solo
LA Art Walk Downtown, Los Angeles, CA/ 2011 Group
LA Art Walk Downtown, Los Angeles, CA/2012 Group
Antebellum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA/ 2012 Group
Twentieth Showroom, Los Angeles, CA/ 2012 Work presented
The Art Swagger (Rottet Studio), Los Angeles, CA/ 2012 Free Arts for Abused Children
Origins (Martine Chaisson Gallery), New Orleans, LA/ 2013 Solo
Art for Arts' Sake (Martine Chaisson Gallery), New Orleans, LA/ 2013