Kent Dorn "Remails"
Freight and Volume
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Kent Dorn has a story to tell, and it’s very much his own. My first glimpse of the
remarkable painting “Mystic (Sage)” by this artist, ironically at a collector’s high-rise penthouse overlooking downtown Chicago and Lake Michigan, was a revelation. The feeling was not unlike seeing fog suddenly lift after ascending a cloud-enshrouded mountain, and it quite literally took my breath away. I was struck immediately by his raw talent, the aura of mystery which impermeated those stuccoed gobs of dried paint and grey wash forming the composition. Most of all I was impressed at how indelibly he captured his subject – the post slacker/Gen X crew who grew up in the Bush war years and came to age when Obama was transcendently elected. While several other young contemporaries also sprang to mind upon my introduction to Kent Dorn – Tyson and Scott Reeder, Hernan Bas, Katherine Bernhardt, Liz Marcus and others (not to mention a strong kinship with Peter Doig) - Dorn is without a doubt a forerunner of this genre, both intrinsically, chronologically, and because of his unique poetic sensibility.
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from November 04, 2010 to January 04, 2011
Opening Reception on 2010-11-04 from 18:00 to 20:00