Ian Davenport shows at the Paul Kasmin Gallery, which I saw. The minute i saw his paintings i was awe-struck. Davenport's palette is incredible and pure heaven to my eyes. I did some research on his work and found some interesting things out. He creates his work by use of drips and gravity, similar to early abstract expressionist like Pollock. He uses house paint in syringes, ejects the paint onto the canvas(which is mounted vertically on a wall to amplify the gravity effect) and then manipulates the pools of paint at the bottom of each piece by tilting the fiber board in different directions. Davenport is an artist i am looking at because of his palette and his style of dripping paint is something i am considering incorporating sparsely in future work(to break up the organic shapes and geometric patterns)
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