Karin Davie - Louis Grachos
Selected Works
KORTE INHOUD
"The best bet for immediate aesthetic gratification right now is Karin Davie . . . painting loopy abstractions in which wide striated ribbons fill the canvases in undulating waves"-Ken Johnson, the New York Times With her bold use of color and undulating, twisting lines,Karin Davie works at the intersection between representation and abstraction, creating sensuous, psychological, and completely exhilarating canvases. "In a sense, painting is like dance-the movement, the process, the image. But the moment you are making the painting, something else enters in," she explains. While her work seems spontaneous, the fluidity of her lines betray an intense degree of concentration and a striking command of the medium. The book includes her most recent paintings and a selection of sculptural drawings-on zippered paper with mirrored Mylar-that conjure up the squashed and distorted images of her paintings. Karin Davie has a BFA from Queens University in Ontario and an MFA fromnthe Rhode Island School of Design. She has ...
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Original boards with dustwrapper, richly illustrated in colour, 4to.; Blindstamped book plate and date on first free endpaper. [Auteur: Grachos, L., Schwabsky, B. and Tillman, L.] [Pagina's: 159] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York : Rizzoli] [Jaar: 2006] [Titel: Karin Davie]
