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Ian Davenport relishes the intense pull of gravity. Throughout his career, the British artist has encouraged paint to flow and drip down the length of his vast panels, often rushing to the floor in lively swirls. For Tides, a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper at Kasmin, he continues to make use of gravity while channeling other energies that shape our lived environments. These dynamic paintings are suggestive of currents of air and tidal pulses, which can be recognized for their powerful impact on the planet and felt by the body. Davenport embraces the movement and dynamism of such forces: fissures and deep undulations erupt from his orderly lines; tiny bubbles of air form at the meeting point of his vertical runs; paint comes alive in electrifying whirlpools, mirroring bubbling lakes of molten lava.
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