Karin Davie / Symptomania

Ridgefield, CT - Karin Davie is a New York-based artist whose recent abstract paintings are an exploration into the physical and psychological nature of the “body” in painting. Her work explores the intersection of representation and abstraction through process, memory, and gesture. Davie is interested in the performative nature of painting and the use of the artist’s body in creating a painting. This physicality, echoed in the most recent work, is evident in hyperbolic and distorted curvilinear forms. On exhibition September 14, 2008 to February 8, 2009.

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