Ian Davenport Exhibition
Paul Kasmin Gallery
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Throughout his career, Davenport has approached making paintings by developing rigorous and typically, highly physical techniques. With the 'Puddle Paintings' he pours lines of water-based paints from a heavy-duty syringe on to aluminum or stainless steel panels and then allows gravity to pull the paint down the surface of the work. Davenport manipulates the angle of the bottom of each panel, prompting the liquid lines of paint to pool and gather, orchestrating the multi-coloured puddling that occurs at the base, but ultimately relinquishing control of this part of the process, encouraging the paint to surrender to its liquid nature.
The essence of the paintings, in the artist's own words, "is the richness of the final outcome, which is intertwined with a set of procedures." Davenport is employing both chance and control – creating paintings which are simultaneously linear and flared, strict and malleable.
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from April 02, 2009 to May 02, 2009