Kit King’s “Dimensional Analogue” at Last Rites Gallery.
Opening this Saturday, April 23rd 2016 at Last Rites Gallery in New York City, New York is Canadian artist Kit King’s solo exhibition “Dimensional Analogue.”
From the gallery’s press release:
This exhibition of paintings explored through a crucible of trepidation, perception and ultimately, painting itself, is a wide open metaphor for the artist. “I struggle daily with the notion of space, and my place within it,” says King. “It all boils down to identity and reality.”
During the last seven years, King has struggled with agoraphobia which is clinical anxiety in response to open spaces. As Kit explains, she lives her life behind the same walls day in and day out. King notes she may never be able to see her work outside her studio. In this light, the exhibition will serve, in many ways, as a potent offering: bringing the artist’s personal workplace to the world as she breaks down space to its simplest most universal terms of points, dimensions and planar surfaces. Kit, who is fascinated by the psychology embedded within spatial awareness, explores perception as well as technical subjects. This new collection is the equivalent of a battlefield where literal awareness can be mischievous, and space itself can give birth to fears and anxieties in the form of abstract two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes.
King’s new achromatic works, which represent her ultimate pictorial and conceptual experiment, have been rendered in a neutral palette of blacks, whites, greys and beiges. Here the subjects are depicted in a variety of mediums, and can all be traced back to the artist’s interaction with both space and consciousness: each work is a narrative of how each of us perceives space and reality in different measures.
“Dimensional Analogue” is on display until May 8th, 2016. Please continue below to see more images:
Naoshima, Japan, April, 2016.
Our latest thrill, Ryan Heshka
Amie Dicke, Collecting Alibis, 2013
for Byrdie | Photo by Justin Coit
Illustrations by Julia Petrova
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Here’s 3 pages of a comic I stopped working on. I’m trying out a lot of things right now while I work on a new book of shorts and this is something that was almost working but ultimately fell apart. I wrote something without thinking the look and the comic got less and less appealing to read as a comic as it went on. These things are always a learning experience though and now I know how to approach my next comic.
But I really liked these pages and wanted to share.
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