NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough Gallery presents an exhibition of recent work by Doug Wada, titled Americana,which will continue through February 11, 2012 at Marlborough Gallery. This exhibition, the artist’s first solo show with Marlborough Gallery, is comprised of oil paintings depicting his characteristic quotidian, mass-produced objects. Wada extracts elements from the everyday and presents hyper-real, full-scale painting interpretations. He selects banal objects such as coolers, barber poles, and turnstiles, and suspends them on a white background, providing the opportunity to contemplate the true meaning of these familiar and often ignored elements of our lives. While these paintings create a nearly trompe l’oeil effect at first glance, when examined closely the lustrous, velvety brushstrokes create