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1958 Guggenheim Painting Award [research dates] 1958 Recent Paintings by 7 British Artists [research dates] 1958 Pictures for Schools: 1 — 23 February 1958 Robert Colquhoun: May Alan Davie: June — August Women's International Art Club: 2 October — 26 October 1958 Jackson Pollock: November — December 1958

Davie began painting in earnest, working on big rolls of paper on the floors of cheap hotel rooms.

At the time of his breakthrough Whitechapel Gallery exhibition in 1958, Davie's improvisatory paintings were as «out there» as British art got.

Distinct from the purely retinal or optical experience offered by Op art, Davie's abstractions allow the viewer to both «see and feel» her painting process.

Inspired by postmodern dance, Davie redefines the modernist motif of the painted stripe by inserting references to the body.

On the occasion of her traveling mini-survey featuring 41 paintings, drawings, and sculptures, which began last month on February 23rd at the Albright - Knox Museum in Buffalo, Rail contributing editor Joan Waltemath visited Karin Davie's Lower East Side studio to discuss her life and work.

Rooms 4 to 6 are predominantly non ‐ Italian, with a room dedicated to British masters in the 1950s (Kenneth Armitage, Francis Bacon, Alan Davie, Ben Nicholson, Graham Sutherland), and another dedicated to the CoBrA movement in Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam, with paintings by Alechinsky, Karel Appel and Asger Jorn, as well as Jean Dubuffet.

Although Davie's roots were in Scottish painting, and close to the warmth and vivacity of modern French art, Davie created his own unique artistic language, related to the diversity of his interests.

Their expressive, very subjective pictures seem to be trapped in paint, while Karin Davie's recent neoprene twists are three - dimensional translations of the sweeping gestures of her painting.

Robin Greenwood considers the paintings of the late Alan Davie (1920 — 2014).

Hockney created his first oil paintings and colour lithographs in the late 50s and, in 1957, was confronted with abstract painting for the first time at an exhibition of the works of Alan Davie in Wakefield.

Victor Vasarely: Paintings and Collages, January 30 — March 1 Pierre Courtin: Engravings, Watercolors, and Oils, March 7 — April 8 * Forty - Seventh Annual Exhibition by the Professional Members, April 16 — May 13 * Adolph Gottlieb: Exhibition of Recent Paintings, May 22 — June 23 * Alan Davie: Paintings, September 25 — October 28 * Reuben Nakian: Paintings and Terra Cotta, November 6 — December 2 * Josef Levi and Karl Gerstner: Constructions, Light, and Optical, December 11, 1967 — January 17, 1968 *

Her interest in automatic painting and eliciting creative responses from her audience also links her work to British modernists, such as Alan Davie (former Gregory Fellow in Painting at the University of Leeds) or other contemporary painters represented in the gallery's collection, including Christopher painting and eliciting creative responses from her audience also links her work to British modernists, such as Alan Davie (former Gregory Fellow in Painting at the University of Leeds) or other contemporary painters represented in the gallery's collection, including Christopher Painting at the University of Leeds) or other contemporary painters represented in the gallery's collection, including Christopher P. Wood.

This new exciting Retrospective Exhibition at Alan Wheatley Art will span Alan Davie's whole artistic career and provide the opportunity to view previously unseen significant early oil paintings as well as works painted by the artist shortly before he died.

From Heilmann's and Davidson's personal and quirky approaches, to Davie's sculptural undulations, Schifano's reductive vocabulary, Owens» and van Genderen's investigations of space, and, finally, Levine's sentimentally wise paintings, the work in this exhibit addresses ideas of pleasure for both the artist making the work and viewer beholding it.

Scottish painter, poet, jazz musician, and jewelry designer Alan Davie rose to international prominence in the 1950s and 1960s for his paintings that explored spiritual and cosmic themes through a combination of symbols gleaned from cultures around the world.

Davie: There are very slight deviations in the brush width within one painting, but, for the most part, it's quite minimal, so that it reads as an overall image that sits right up on the surface.

Davie: Painting has always been about light, and in my paintings in particular, I've always wanted to depict some kind of internal light source.

[84] Scottish painter Alan Davie created a large body of abstract paintings during the 1950s that synthesize and reflect his interest in mythology and zen.

The show will include monumental paintings by household names such as Alan Davie, Eileen Agar, Terry Frost and Jim Dine.

Some of his paintings featured in Antonioni's Blow - Up (1966), one of the most successful films of the counterculture era; and in a 1967 monograph, Alan Bowness, future Director of the Tate, described Davie as being «among the major figures in the art of our times».

Davie was the enfant terrible of post-war art, the first British artist — probably the first European artist — to embrace» action painting», to put himself physically in his pictures.

In addition to painting, whether on canvas or paper (he has stated that he prefers to work on paper), Davie has produced several screenprints.

Also showing is an exhibition of the works acquired by Gear during his tenure as the Towner's curator (1958 - 64), including paintings by Sandra Blow, Alan Davie, Roger Hilton and Ceri Richards.

Throughout this period, Alan Davie produced works that indicate an interest in the relationship between the vitality of life, painting and spirituality.

Alan Davie, Letter to James Hyman, from MAGIC REVELATIONS, an edited correspondence between Alan Davie and James Hyman, Alan Davie: Recent Paintings and Gouaches, James Hyman Fine Art, October 2003.

1998 — Sassy Nuggets, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY Projects 63: Karin Davie, Udomsak Krisanamis, Bruce Pearson, Fred Tomaselli, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1997 — After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY New York / North York, Gallery of North York, North York, Canada

Goddess of the Wheel, from January 1960, demonstrates the agility of Davie's approach to painting, with its fusion of colour and movement.

1999 — Post-Hypnotic, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (2000); Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA (2000) Ultra Buzz: Karin Davie, Peter Hopkins, Tom Moody, James Siena, Fred Tomaselli, Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KN At Century's End: The John P. Morrissey Collection of Nineties» Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Girls» School, Brenau University, Gainesville, GA