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SITE SANTA FE PRESENTS KARIN
DAVIE
April 26 -- July 6, 2003
Santa Fe, NM -- SITE Santa Fe is pleased to present an exhibit of the recent
works of Karin Davie, including six large-scale paintings, three of which
will be created specifically for this exhibition. Karin Davie will
be on view at SITE Santa Fe April 26 through July 6, 2003, with a free public
opening reception Friday, April 25 from 6 to 7 pm. Showing concurrently will
be Susan Silton and Roxy Paine/Second Nature. There will be
a gallery talk with all three artists as part of the Artists On SITE component
of Art & Culture on Saturday, April 26 at 5 pm. This event is free
with museum admission.
Karin Davie's work explores the intersection of representation and abstraction
through flamboyant fusions of color and curved lines. Davie is interested
in the performative nature of painting--the use of the body in creating a
painting--and this physicality is echoed in the rounded, bodily shapes in
her work. Davie takes the stripe, used since postwar abstraction by such important
artists as Frank Stella and Bridget Riley, and turns it into an organic and
dynamic pattern. "I liked using something very familiar, like the stripe,
that had been used in popular culture," says Davie. Also influenced by modernist
choreographer Trisha Brown, Davie uses her entire body to create the enormous
canvases. She says, "It's like a dance, in a sense--the movement, the process,
the image. But something else has to enter in, the moment you are making the
painting."
Her latest series, Pushed, Pulled, Depleted & Duplicated, including
three brand-new paintings created for this exhibition, will be on view at
SITE Santa Fe. Ken Johnson, in a recent review in The New York Times,
writes, "The best bet for immediate aesthetic gratification right now is Karin
Davie. Ms. Davie continues to do what made her known in the late 1990's, painting
loopy abstractions in which wide, striated ribbons fill the canvases in undulating
waves. Painted in intense high-contrast colors, the whirls seem to balloon
into three-dimensional space and push against the rectangular edges of the
canvases, threatening to explode from the confines of pictorial space."
Karin Davie was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1965 and attended Queens University
in Kingston, Ontario (BFA, 1987) and the Rhode Island School of Design in
Providence, Rhode Island (MFA 1989). Davie has been featured in solo exhibitions
at White Cube in London, England, and the Mary Boone Gallery in New York,
as well as in group exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland; the
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Karin Davie
is organized by SITE Santa Fe, courtesy of the artist and Mary Boone Gallery,
New York.
SITE Santa Fe is located at 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Exhibition
hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 pm; Friday, 10:00 am
-7:00 pm. Admission is $5.00 for adults and $2.50 for students and seniors;
members are free. Free admission is offered on Fridays, made possible by a
grant from The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston. Free guided tours are offered
on Fridays at 6:00 pm and Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 pm. Tours in Spanish
are by appointment. SITE Santa Fe gift certificates are available. Call 505.989.1199
for more information. This announcement is partially funded by the City of
Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers' Tax.
Contact: Press Office
Tel: 505.989.1199
Fax:505.989.1188
email: press@sitesantafe.org
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Pushed, Pulled, Depleted
& Duplicated
# 1, 2002
Oil on canvas
84 x 108 inches
Collection of Annabelle and Robert Garrett, Jr., New York |
