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Harkawik is delighted to announce Brainwaves and Wavestorms, our second exhibition with Bay Area painter Karen Barbour, and the first in New York. Brainwaves evidences a deep meditation into the delicate and subtle boundaries between the sensible world, and its teeming irrational beyond (the sort witnessed only by cats, mystics, and long-haul truck drivers). It is filled with forms that elicit childlike delight but also act as a vehicle for serious perceptual and philosophical investigations.
In Repetition Wilderness and Blue Starling and Atomized Illumination Barbour dares us to identify recognizable elements, pushing the bounds of what might be considered representational. These works are distant echoes of their beginnings. They give the impression of a model who is also a dressmaker, a character who realizes while running to catch a bus that her gown is ill-suited for travel, and so must wear it and alter it all at once. Barbour recalls a time w…
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Harkawik is delighted to announce Brainwaves and Wavestorms, our second exhibition with Bay Area painter Karen Barbour, and the first in New York. Brainwaves evidences a deep meditation into the delicate and subtle boundaries between the sensible world, and its teeming irrational beyond (the sort witnessed only by cats, mystics, and long-haul truck drivers). It is filled with forms that elicit childlike delight but also act as a vehicle for serious perceptual and philosophical investigations.
In Repetition Wilderness and Blue Starling and Atomized Illumination Barbour dares us to identify recognizable elements, pushing the bounds of what might be considered representational. These works are distant echoes of their beginnings. They give the impression of a model who is also a dressmaker, a character who realizes while running to catch a bus that her gown is ill-suited for travel, and so must wear it and alter it all at once. Barbour recalls a time w…
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