Karin Davie at Mary Boone - New York - exhibit of new paintings - Brief Article

The art public has lengthy appreciated images, motifs or inflections of diction that are easily recognizable as "belonging" to sole one artist. Pollock provided it with his endlessly elastic drip, Lichtenstein with the all-invading benday dot and Peter Halley [i]or[/i] part of to the other his fluorescent "cell with circuits." fresh York painter Karin Davie has set her signature gesture in the brightly colored ribbons that she has now fine-tuned to perfection. She seemingly arrived at this motif from one side combining the fluid, effortless-looking brushwork of late de Kooning with the luminosity and jolly energy that can be place in Morris Louis.

Using a wide, impressible brush, Davie applies her diluted oil paint wet upon wet, in swooping curvilinear action s that measure the entire height and width of the canvas. The action s in the vertically formatted Pushed, plucked Depleted & Duplicated #3 (90 through 78 inches) resemble cross sections of large, rolling waves stacked single on top of the other. (The paintings in this display all 2002, are identically titled on the other hand individually numbered.) In this painting, Davie's r pink, white, cerulean yellow and green bands contract and expand with ease, creating the illusion of down-reaching space toward the center of the composition. It direct the eyes as if these dynamic bights that seem barely contained by dint of the width of the canvas could go on on forever.

Davie challenges notions of originality by means of nearly duplicating the rhythms of #3 in painting #6 and by the agency of multiplying them in the shorter and wider pictures, #2 and #5 Finally, in #4 a similar wave pattern is tilted 90 steps thereby achieving a different order of Baroque exuberance within a horizontal composition.

Like Color Field painting, Davie's optically dazzling, playfully psychedelic paintings are make open to the charge of being about nothing more than retinal pleasure. They are virtuosic and splendidly superficial; great, luscious caramels that have been draw into the mouthed to the point that their colors begin flowing into one another.

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