IN ITS OWN LIGHT: PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ED COHEN & VICTORIA SHAW
John Currin
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Contemporary Curated featuring works from “In Its Own Light: Property from the Collection of Ed Cohen and Victoria Shaw”
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John Currin
B.1962
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oil on canvas
34 1/8 by 30 1/8 in. 86.7 by 76.5 cm.
Executed in 1989.
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34 1/8 by 30 1/8 in. 86.7 by 76.5 cm.
Executed in 1989.
Provenance
Private Collection
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in May 1999
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in May 1999
Exhibited
New York, White Columns, White Room: John Currin, December 1989 - January 1990
London, Thomas Dane Gallery, Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, March - April 2007
London, Thomas Dane Gallery, Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, March - April 2007
Catalogue Note
"I first imagined these high-school-girl paintings when I was in my studio in Hoboken. I was so lost, and I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I wasn't living where I wanted to live, and nothing was going right. I remember writing down character studies for the girls in a notebook. I would think of colors, decide what time of day it was, and make a list of the character's attributes. At this time, I read the novel The Horse's Mouth [Joyce Cary, 1944], which had long, beautiful descriptions of the character making figurative paintings, painting feet, and I decided that I wanted to think about those kinds of things when I was painting. My paintings became about giving up on my abstract-painting persona and adopting a repressed vision of myself--very angry, but essentially nice. My expressionism is not violent, it's repression rather than rage. That's what I was trying to capture with these silent girls. Their style also seems non-Western--more like twentieth-century Chinese Communist paintings." John Currin, in Kara Vander Weg, Ed., John Currin, New York 2006, p. 56
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