artUS 23

First Degree
Interior Ghosts: An Interview with Karin Davie.
by Otino Corsano

The Summer 2008 issue of artUS features my interview with New York painter Karin Davie. The following is an excerpt of the artUS article:

The painting gesture in my work,
however, documents a repetitive bodily act.
I thought of these behavioral dispositions as informal and obsessive rather than as grand
or aggressive.
For me, it is about taking the dominant images of power, purity, and nobility,
and reclaiming them through exposed feelings of powerlessness and vulnerability.

Karin Davie "Chinatown Blues No. 3" 2007