Ian Davenport at Kasmin Gallery

A cascade of color greets visitors to Kasmin Gallery’s cavernous 27th Street gallery in the form of British artist Ian Davenport’s large-scale poured paintings.  Inspired by the gorgeous colors he once encountered in a field of bluebonnets, the artist planned sequences of poured lines of paint that would translate a natural vision into a powerful, mediated experience of color.  (On view in Chelsea through Jan 9th).

Ian Davenport, Spring (Bluebonnet), acrylic on aluminum (six panels with additional floor section), 129 7/8 x 236 ¼ x 39 3/8 inches, 2018.

Ian Davenport at Paul Kasmin Gallery

The colors of Gustav Klimt’s famous portrait of Viennese girl Mada Primavesi (in the Met’s collection) inspired this lush painting by British artist Ian Davenport, seen here in detail. In Klimt’s original, Mada’s slim figure barely stands out against a background of white, lilac and pink color; here, Davenport allows the colors to take over fully. (At Paul Kasmin Gallery through Oct 22nd).

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