NYAB Event - Kevin Larmon "Recent Paintings"

Kevin Larmon "Recent Paintings"

Jason McCoy, Inc. (Midtown)

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For almost three decades, Kevin Larmon has received critical acclaim for creating paintings that lyrically explore the divide between abstraction and referential imagery. He aims to establish compositions that while largely remaining non-objective, nevertheless convey distinct moods and a strong sense of atmosphere. Along these lines, he combines expressive gestures with more specifically drawn details, and layers washes of paint with opaque forms. The results are compositions that often read as epic sceneries. Familiar or dazzlingly strange, these are highly associative and reminiscent of dramatic landscapes found in nature as well as of out-of-space skies.

Meanwhile, Larmon often experiments with his materials in order to create surfaces that are rich in visual and textural information and add a stark contrast to the fluid biomorphic forms he prefers. A sense of mystique prevails in Larmon's work, which bestows a meditative calm. In Larmon, we are challenged to observe the vast scapes before us without the distractions of a clear sense of time or referential space.