What’s Weird and Wonderful?
By LENORE SKENAZY
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John Davis Gallery opened an exhibition last week featuring the work of Kyle Staver, whose paintings have turned to the old stories. “Lately I have been painting dragons, distressed maidens, and bulls with bad intentions,” says the artist. “Titian, Rembrandt, Picasso, Redon, and Ryder have all preceded me to this trough and drunk deeply. Perhaps the greatest inspiration for my recent work is the Metropolitan Museum’s Courbet exhibition in 2010. The personal and mythic narrative in Courbet’s work reminds me of the dark and weighty atmosphere of my native northern Minnesota, where the winter sun sets early and night goes on forever.
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|John Davis Gallery opened an exhibition last week featuring the work of Kyle Staver, whose paintings have turned to the old stories. “Lately I have been painting dragons, distressed maidens, and bulls with bad intentions,” says the artist. “Titian, Rembrandt, Picasso, Redon, and Ryder have all preceded me to this trough and drunk deeply. Perhaps the greatest inspiration for my recent work is the Metropolitan Museum’s Courbet exhibition in 2010. The personal and mythic narrative in Courbet’s work reminds me of the dark and weighty atmosphere of my native northern Minnesota, where the winter sun sets early and night goes on forever.
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