The Goldmark Cultural Center’s Norman Brown Gallery presents “You’re Never Safe With Eddie”, a solo exhibition of oil paintings by Dallas artist Gordon Young.

The exhibition is on display from Monday September 8, 2025 through Friday October 3, 2025, with an opening reception on Saturday September 13, 2025 from 4:00pm to 7:00pm at the Norman Brown Gallery (14001 Goldmark Drive), with an artist talk at 6:00pm that evening. The reception is an ideal time to meet the artist and learn from him about his work.

About the Exhibition

“ … art is ‘not a set of rules but a harmony of whims.”
- Ruben Dario, an early 20th century Nicaraguan poet

I chose the painting “You’re never safe with Eddy” as the center for this exhibit  as it reflects the essence of my aesthetics. It is a record of my artistic whims.

What is a whim? The Cambridge Dictionary describe a whim as, “ a sudden wish or idea, especially one that cannot be reasonably explained.”

Combining early Modernist formalism, an image transformed through mid 20th century technology and a painted skull, the visual differences unify through their formal relationships. The choices made were both conscious and subconscious,

To begin, using a brush still wet with the turpentine from a previous painting, I create  lines, spaces and areas which will be activated in various ways as the painting grows. In those first marks I see faces, figures and forms, some I keep some I discard. The organization/composition of the bits and pieces are controlled, consciously and subconsciously, by the formal necessities of the painting.

The painting is about the painting.

-Gordon Young, 2025