"Leah Durner in Conversation with David Cohen" Art Talk
571 Projects
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Visit 571 Projects for a conversation between artist Leah Durner and editor and publisher of artcritical.com, David Cohen.
"Reveling in [...] fleshiness, living up to de Kooning's dictum that flesh was the reason oil paint was invented, Durner simultaneously clothes and unclothes her marks, recalling in the process such slippery virtuosi of drapery against skin as Sargent and Van Dyck. There's a kind of push-pull in Durner between the naked and the clothed, as, abstractly, she at once fleshes out fantasized couture and luxuriously drapes her naked charge. (...) Durner is an action painter in the sense that we are constantly aware in her work of a primal moment, a coming into being. Looseness, to the point of teetering on the edge of chaos, is omnipresent, often trumping resolve."
-David Cohen, 'Leah Durner: Paintings', 2006
[Image: Leah Durner "Aqua 1" (2011) Gouache on aqua Fabriano Tiziano paper 39 x 27.5 in.]
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May 21, 2011 from 15:00