Editions Fawbush is pleased to announce the publication of Karin Davie’s first substantial foray into the print medium, The Old In Out In Out (Night Version), 2006. A diptych in the format of a vibrant 46 color screenprint, the work registers all of the potent emotions found in the artist’s full body of work; namely, extreme physicality, aggressive exuberance, playful sexuality and a rich color palette. Clearly grounded in the optical style of 1960s psychedelic painting, but also heavily imbued with post-feminist and action-painting references, the work covers many issues Davie has claimed as her own since her career began in the early 1990s. The Old In Out In Out (Night Version) is a continuation of her earlier In Out In Out paintings and drawings, of which the drawings were first exhibited at the Fawbush Gallery in 1994. The title of the current incarnation references a bit of slang from the Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange; reminding us that it is not just the visual language of performance art and Pop & Op Art history that are tapped and influence her creative mind, but popular culture itself. The Old In Out In Out (Night Version) spent months in the artist’s studio as well as the printer’s shop to allow for a process of continuous change and shifting of the work’s layers. As each new layer of color was applied, spatial considerations were adjusted and a new balance achieved. The result is a richly articulated reinterpretation of a favorite image seen as an integral part of Davie’s oeuvre.

Karin Davie has had numerous one person exhibitions, including Karin Davie: Dangerous Curves, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, and Karin Davie: New Paintings & Drawings, the Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, as well as forthcoming exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Group exhibitions include Extreme Abstraction, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Buffalo, NY, Art on Paper 2004, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, Against the Wall: Painting Against the Grid, Surface, Frame, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, Hypermental, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Post-Hypnotic, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL (traveled: The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL), Ultra Buzz: Karin Davie, Peter Hopkins, Tom Moody, James Siena, Fred Tomaselli, Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, At Century’s End: The John P. Morrissey Collection of Nineties’ Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL and Projects 63: In Your Eye (Karin Davie, Udomsak Krisanamis, Bruce Pearson, Fred Tomaselli), The Museum of Modern Art, NY. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, the Foundation Erich Marx, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, the Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, and the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington. Karin Davie is represented in New York by the Mary Boone Gallery.