AN EVENING WITH ARTIST DAVID KORTY
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2008, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Book signing, cocktails and private exhibition viewing
in honor of his new book David Korty
published by Sadie Coles HQ and Michael Kohn Gallery
with text by Rachel Kushner
MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY
8071 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90048
American painter David Korty is known for his phosphorescent depictions of his hometown of Los Angeles. Working in watercolour, pencil and acrylic, on paper or canvas, Korty's evocative studies of the illuminated Hollywood hills at night, the mist-obscured high-rises of Downtown, people on the subway, at the beach or in Griffith Park employ a chromatic exaggeration of architectural and atmospheric space. More related to the paintings of Turner or Seurat than to romantic imagined landscape paintings, Korty employs abstraction only as a tool for precise representation. The key is the artist's real-time experience of the depicted environment and his communication of that optical reality - these are landscapes he has inhabited, photographed, enjoyed.
RSVP: 323-658-8088 / laura@kohngallery.com
