Karin Davie

selected works/

birth/

1965 Born in Toronto, Canada

education/

1987 Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, BFA
1989 Rhode Island School of Design, MFA

biography/

Karin Davie explores the relationship between abstraction and representation, with her particular brand of colourful, brash and exuberant strokes. She gives new and experimental meaning to the images of stripes, always resulting in a delightful challenge to interpret various ideas that can be manifest in her work. Although minimalist, it is by no means frivolous. On the contrary, her images center on illusionistic space and tend to be void of hard edges, often swerving off the canvass, and materializing a few inches after. This ambiguous play celebrates the irrepressible image that Karin creates in her work, defying any attempts to box into definable categories.

selected solo exhibitions/

2006 Karin Davie – Dangerous Curves, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2006 Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
2003 Mario Diacono at Ars Libri, Boston, MA

selected group exhibitions/

2005 Big Band, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium
2004 Art on Paper 2004, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2003 OnLine, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY