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Artist: Darina Karpov |
| Exhibition: Special Reconnaissance |
| Date: November 09 2006 - January 19 2007 |
Curator: Dylan J. Gauthier
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Bio:
"My drawings and paintings emerge as a form of interplay between various conditions such as abstraction/figuration, proximity/distance, movement/stillness. Shadow, light and color use their own logic no longer delimiting objects, but suggesting their underlying unity.
The work forms like a virus, proliferating, shifting directions, plotting and transforming the space. The elements appear near and far, dense clusters disperse into the whiteness of the paper. Juxtaposition of microscopic and boundless, familiar and strange creates an interplay of opposing forces. Tensions explode in chaos, disrupting any attempt at containment.
I like the way things appear and dissolve, hidden becomes revealed and virtual materialized passing through different states, always incomplete and tentative as a sketch. Everything permeates and reveals irreducibly intricate relationships. The result is a site, a terrain that is both a vast landscape and a cluttered cavern, a space that is flowing and transitory like water and fixed like a stone or crystal.
Darina Karpov received her initial art training at the preparatory school for the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, Russia and later studied Costume Design at the Moscow Institute of Technology. She moved to US in 1991 and studied at Maryland Institute, College of Art graduating with BFA in 1998. She received her MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2001. Her work has been included in a number of group exhibitions in New York and Leipzig, Germany. Her first solo show is upcoming January 2007. She is currently represented by Pierogi. Darina Karpov lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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