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Karin Doleske: The Drama of Abstraction
Exhibition Catalogue Essay (Studio Vogue Gallery) (2012)
  • Matthew Ryan Smith, The University of Western Ontario
Abstract

Karin Doleske’s most recent series Embedded Paintings from 2012 maintains a heightened interest in placing the viewer as an arbiter of knowledge. With these works, Doleske has manipulated poetic narrative for the visual sphere so that viewers may experience her paintings as they would written texts. However, in a twist of semiotic mischief, each painting formally characterizes an empty page to be filled by the viewer’s thoughts and imagination. For example, the horizontality of "Ten" subtly points to the lines of a written novel yet alphabetical letters are clearly absent. By doing so, it is as if Doleske has created a space for the viewer to write their own story onto the painting, a story informed by their particular tastes, emotions and experiences.

Publication Date
2012
Citation Information
Matthew Ryan Smith. "Karin Doleske: The Drama of Abstraction" Exhibition Catalogue Essay (Studio Vogue Gallery) (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/matthewryansmith/36/