Karin Davie paintings at art museum

Karin Davie is best known for her colorful, and evocative paintings that use undulating stripes and contorted gestures to obsessively animate the canvas and immmerse the viewer. The exhibition includes six new oil paintings as well as two multi-media wall pieces made of cast resin and LEDs. The exhibition title, symptomania, a combination of the words "symptom" which is traditionally indicates a departure from normal function indicating the presence of abnormality, and "mania" a serve condition characterized by extremely elevated mood and energy. The new paintings continue her interest in "the gesture" as the image, perception, the body and metaphor. In these symptomania paintings, sinuous strokes of alternating dark and vibrant color snake across the canvases. Karin Davie says, "I've always been fascinated by paintings potential to affect the perceptual space of the viewer, the idea of making a 'moving painter' one that appeared alive and engulfed the viewer's space forcing an interaction between object and viewer.".