Karin Davie

Karin Davie
Born1965 (1965)
Toronto
Known forcontemporary painter

Karin Davie (born 1965) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City and Seattle, Washington.

Biography

Davie was born in Toronto, Canada.[1] She attended Queen's University at Kingston and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Davie received a Canada Council art grant in 1992 and 1995, an Elizabeth Foundation Grant in 1998, an American Academy of Arts & Letters award in 1999, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1991 and 1999. Davie received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015.[2]

Work

Davie is best known for her idiosyncratic twist on the modernist 'stripe' and looping hyperbolic abstractions. Her contemporary practice has been viewed in context with ideas of painting-as-performance from 1950s Abstract Expressionism and the 1960s Op Art.[3]

Jan Allen has said that Davie's painting practice "...is a compelling evocation of stamina, evasion, and voracious sensuality. A persistent, undulating rhythm of hiding and revealing, of unseen machinations beneath surfaces, courses through all Davies' work. On a certain level, the diverse cultural productions and visual effects that the artist cites as inspiration for her painting – films, cartoons, reflections in a glossy fender or the swaying figure of a woman walking in a striped dress – are cover stories for, or approximations of, a deeper aesthetic investigation."[4]

Jen Graves has said that "Davie has said she thinks of her paintings as parodies of the motions her body has to do to make them."[5] The artist has stated, "The paintings are constructed from repetitive physical movements. I think of 'the gestures' as behaviors that are both informal and obsessive as opposed to grand and aggressive. I am interested in a visual reflection of the complex psychological and social relationships that persist over time to concepts of the 'self' and 'body' in painting."[6]

A survey exhibition of Davie's work "Karin Davie: Dangerous Curves", was held at the Albright Knox Art Gallery in 2006.[7]

Collections

Work by the artist is held in the public collections of various museums including the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York;[8] The Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington;[9] the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas;[10] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Karin Davie". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
  2. ^ "Karin Davie". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
  3. ^ Johnson, Ken (November 22, 2002). "Art in Review: Karin Davie". The New York Times. Retrieved June 12, 2013.
  4. ^ Allen, Jan (2009). Karin Davie: Underworlds. Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Agnes Etherington Art Centre Publications / ABC Art Books, Canada. ISBN 978-1553390954.
  5. ^ Graves, Jen. "Spooning and Dripping: The Bodily Grandeur of Karin Davie". The Stranger, Index Newspapers, LLC. Retrieved June 12, 2013.
  6. ^ Davie, Karin. "Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Interview with Karin Davie". Karin Davie. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  7. ^ "Karin Davie: Dangerous Curves". Albright-Knox. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
  8. ^ "Karin Davie". Albright-Knox. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
  9. ^ "Works – Karin Davie". Seattle Art Museum. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
  10. ^ "View 2". Nerman Museum. Johnson County Community College. Retrieved September 13, 2021.