Verne Dawson Conversation and Book Launch

Karma presents a conversation between Verne Dawson and Jennifer Krasinski followed by a book launch and signing.

Verne Dawson paints chimeric landscapes and cosmological scenes that attend to timekeeping and the structures—both ancient and contemporary—that govern everyday life. Evoking the fantastical worlds of Hieronymus Bosch and the formal reductiveness of folk and so-called “outsider” artists, Dawson’s oils imbue abstraction with a creatural spirit and figuration with the expansiveness of expressionism. Working from observation and memory, as well as improvisationally, the artist uses loose brushstrokes to reflect on the symbols, belief systems, and stories that inform the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Dawson lives between New York and North Carolina.

Jennifer Krasinski is a writer and critic who primarily focuses on the subjects of film, video and performance. Although she was initially trained as an art historian, she began her work not as a writer but as a performer, working in New York’s vibrant downtown theater with artists such as Richard Foreman and Richard Maxwell. Her work has appeared in numerous publications such as Artforum.com, Art in America, Spike Art Quarterly, Bidoun, N+1 Film Review, DIS Magazine, The Paris Review Blog, and The Village Voice. She is the Senior Editor of Artforum magazine and was previously an art columnist at The Village Voice. She is the author of Prop Tragedies(Wrath of Dynasty Press, 2010), a short collection of experimental fiction.

These programs are free, but space is limited. RSVP is essential.

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