KARIN DAVIE is one of the leading contemporary abstract kpainters of her generation.Born in 1965 in Canada,the artist first gained prominence in the early 1992s with her inspired twist on the modernist stripe painting.Bending the stripe to her will, she created hypnotic compositions with forms that undulate, cinch,and swell.In this, her first book, the artist's highly distinctive style as it has developed over fifteen years is considered in depth.

KARIN DAVIE is one of the leading contemporary abstract kpainters of her generation.Born in 1965 in Canada,the artist first gained prominence in the early 1992s with her inspired twist on the modernist stripe painting.Bending the stripe to her will, she created hypnotic compositions with forms that undulate, cinch,and swell.In this, her first book, the artist's highly distinctive style as it has developed over fifteen years is considered in depth.

It was her interest in early Minimalist dance in New York that first prompted Davie to explore issues of the body,memory, and the performa e process in her own gestural abstractions. Author Barry Schwabsky writes that Davie's "effort,skill,and stamina in executing the extravagantly looping strokes" is formidable--"the very length of the unbroken stroke constituting a sort of 'sustain' that is the equivalent of a musician playing a wind instrument holding a note beyond most people's ability to push a single breath."……

FOREWORD LOUIS GRACHOS

ESSAY BARRY SCHWABSKY

PLATES

AFTERWORD LYNNE TILLMAN

BIOGRAPHY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS