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Karin Davie

Karin Davie (Born 1965) is active/lives in New York / Canada.  Karin Davie is known for Undulating color bands-large scale.

Abstract painter Karin Davie was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1965. She received her BFA degree in 1987 from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, and an MFA in 1989 from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. She has been a visiting lecturer at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Davie uses the stripe, popular for decades with geometric abstractionists, and turns it into an organic, active 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 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."

Ken Johnson, reviewing Davie's work in The New York Times, writes, "Ms. Davie continues to do what made her known in the late 1990's, painting loop   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6426 characters.]  Artist bio

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