OBS–KD–2025–ICW
It Comes In Waves — Karin Davie
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Gesture as Pressure
OBS–KD–2025–ICW
Surface and Reflection
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OBS–KD–2025–ICW
Origin:
Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Era:
Late Post-Minimal / Contemporary Abstraction (1990s–present)
Themes / Lineage:
Gesture stabilized through repetition, pressure accumulated over time, structure held through constraint
Field Notes:
Gesture is not released; it is held. Repetition accumulates pressure across the surface. Structure appears only after duration has done its work. Form stabilizes without resolving into image.
Quiet Modernism appears here as force accumulated through restrained gesture.

Gesture as Pressure

It Comes In Waves — Karin Davie

Gesture accumulates through force.

Marks compress the surface.

Pressure holds.

What builds?
Gesture is often read as expressive release, yet release never occurs. Force accumulates through repetition. What continues is pressure sustained without discharge.

Gesture is often read as expressive release, yet release never occurs.

Force accumulates through repetition.

What continues is pressure sustained without discharge.

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

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