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Karin Davie
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Surface as Pressure
ART–MAT–DAV
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Surface as Pressure
Karin Davie
ART–MAT–DAV
Surface as Pressure
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1. Karin Davie, Between My Eye and Heart No. 7, 2004.
Oil on canvas, 52 × 72 in. © Karin Davie Studio.

2. Karin Davie, portrait.
Courtesy of the artist. © Karin Davie Studio.

3. Karin Davie, Between My Eye and Heart No. 23, 2006.
Oil on canvas, 153 × 122 cm.© Karin Davie Studio.

4. Karin Davie: Dangerous Curves.
Installation view, American Kunsthalle (AKG), Buffalo, NY.
24 February – 14 May 2006.
Photograph by Tom Noonan. © Karin Davie.

5. Karin Davie, For You, For Me, 1994.
Post-Impressions series. © Karin Davie Studio.

6. Karin Davie.
Installation view, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY. © Karin Davie Studio.

7–8. Projects 63: Karin Davie, Udomsak Krisanamis, Bruce Pearson, Fred Tomaselli.
Installation views, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY.
14 May – 30 June 1998. © Karin Davie Studio.

9. Karin Davie, Oh Baby #1 and Oh Baby #2, from the series Sidewalk, 1992.
Oil on canvas.
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL. © Karin Davie Studio.

10. Karin Davie: To Boldly Go Where No Man’s Gone Before.
Installation view, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY. © Karin Davie Studio.

11. Karin Davie, Beam Me Up No. 3, 2022.
Installation view, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY. © Karin Davie Studio.

12. Installation view, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY. © Karin Davie Studio.

13 & 15. Karin Davie: To Boldly Go Where No Man’s Gone Before.
Installation views, CHART Gallery.
12 May – 30 June 2023. © Karin Davie Studio.

14. Karin Davie, In the Metabolic No. 2, 2019. © Karin Davie Studio.

16–17. New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, Karin Davie: It Comes In Waves,
30 October – 20 December 2025. © Miles McEnery Gallery.

Cover:
Karin Davie: New Paintings & Drawings.
Courtesy Wetterling Gallery. © Karin Davie Studio.

Portrait image:
Karin Davie, 1999.
Photograph by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.
Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
© Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

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Structual Relations
The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.