KM Fine Arts is pleased to present ZUGZWANG, a solo exhibition of new paintings and mixed media works by Dana Louise Kirkpatrick, on view from November 8, 2014 to January 17, 2015 at the gallery's West Hollywood location at 814 North La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, November 8 from 7-10 pm.
DATES + TIMES:
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 8, 7-10pm
Exhibition Dates + Hours: November 8 - January 17, 2015; Tuesday - Saturday, 11am-6pm
KM Fine Arts Los Angeles
814 North La Cienega
Los Angeles, CA 90069
About Dana Louise Kirkpatrick - Dana Louise Kirkpatrick was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1976. She was raised in Washington, D.C. and studied Fine Arts at Georgetown University, graduating with honors in 2001. While attending the university, she received the DaVinci Medal for Excellence in Studio Art and the Misty Dailey Award for Outstanding Work in Studio Art.
Kirkpatrick's bold, large-scale artworks sample Modern Art, street art, and German neo-expressionism, as well as other art historical sources. These mixed media works, often populated by a motley crew and cast of characters, tell stories, stories of the disaffected, the marginalized, and the voiceless, stories of Kirkpatrick's own. She grapples with the dichotomies and contradictions embedded in contemporary Western culture, religion, and humanity, using forceful iconography and a highly expressive technique. Avoiding sentimentality, the work of Dana Louise Kirkpatrick seeks to establish an intimate connection with viewers while engaging them with the unrestricted exploration of universal emotions. Kirkpatrick lives and works between New York City and Los Angeles. She has studied at The Art Students League of New York and is also an art curatorial consultant for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. Her first Los Angeles solo exhibition-Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed-which featured a catalog with commentary written by her mentor Raymond Pettibon-was presented in Los Angeles in 2013. Her works are in a large number of private collections, including Jorge M. Perez, Lyndley and Samuel Schwab, Timothy Hutton, Flea, Anthony Kiedis, Stephen Nemeth, James D. Stern, Cyril Aouizerate, Tim Armstrong, Neil Gehani, Shepard and Amanda Fairey, Ian Montone, and Eric Moscahlaidis. Much in demand by collectors worldwide, Kirkpatrick's critically acclaimed works are an almost instant sell-out when presented at local and international art fairs. She has taken part in numerous group shows and donated work to many charity auctions for organizations such as the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Silverlake Conservatory of Music, The MusiCares and GRAMMY Foundation, Surfers Healing, LIFT, Project Angel Food, and The Art of Elysium. About KM Fine Arts - With prominent locations in Chicago on Oak Street and West Hollywood in Los Angeles, KM Fine Arts, directed by curator Ana Hollinger, has been critically acclaimed for its museum-quality exhibitions since 2006. The gallery specializes in American and European artists of early modernism, postwar, and contemporary art -- including the movements of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. The gallery program includes works by Georg Baselitz, Norman Bluhm, Fernando Botero, James Brooks, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Michael Goldberg, Hans Hofmann, Robert Indiana, Wolf Kahn, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, along with contemporary artists Eric Fischl, Ramsey Dau, Carole Feuerman, Kim Gottlieb-Walker, Dana Louise Kirkpatrick, Gary Lang, Victor Matthews, Brendan Murphy, Ruth Pastine, Cole Sternberg, and Bernie Taupin -- among others.Videos