Kent Dorn "Recent Work"

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In the project space we are also pleased to present the first New York show of Texas-based artist Kent Dorn. In his haunting, thickly impastoed works, Dorn proves he is one of the chief narrators of American suburban angst and melancholy, doled out in equal measure with themes of apocalypse, religious (oc) cult and extra-ordinary phenomena. He is a rare portraitist of life on the fringes of society: runaways, gypsies, ex-cons, street survivors – icons of the dispossessed, deformed, lost, lonely and misunderstood. As well, Dorn focuses on details of this landscape: toadstools, skulls hidden in shrubbery, decomposed birds. Dorn does not merely present or regurgitate stories of this world – clearly he has lived them. These are highly personal and felt works; there is a spiritual and physical authenticity to these paintings which distinguish Dorn from his peers.

Kent Dorn was born in small-town rural South Carolina, received his BFA from nearby Anderson College, and went on to gain his masters at the University of Houston. He has shown previously at galleries in Houston, Chicago and Toronto.

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from May 06, 2010 to June 13, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-05-06 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Kent Dorn

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