David Korty
David Korty (* 1971 in San Francisco ) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles . Korty works primarily in the media of painting, collage, sculpture and drawing.
Life
David Korty was born in 1971 in San Francisco, the son of filmmaker John Korty . In 1992 he graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design , Providence with a BFA and in 1998 the University of California, Los Angeles with an MFA
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David Korty's paintings exude introspective calm and prudence. The painter creates pictures of modern urban life and shows the viewer in his works city sections, people in museums looking at works of art, or libraries, airports, cars, houses, urban landscapes.
In Korty's interplay of lines and color, people and their surroundings form a stylistic unit. The starting material for Korty's painting are photographs that he takes in his hometown of Los Angeles or while traveling to other metropolises. The painterly implementation of the template filters what is photographically documented and turns it into geometrically composed fields of color and lines. Details disappear or are emphasized elsewhere, faces, bodies and perspective are smoothed out. In the interplay of graphite lines, brushstrokes and color fields, the artist distills the spatial world of experience and reveals the linear patterns and aesthetic structures on which it is based for our view.
Korty's handling of the material works in a similar way: the layers of paint are not closed, but in some places show the grain of the canvas, the outlines of graphite pencil and lines of wax crayon. In some places, the color pigments are applied with a fine spatula instead of a brush.
Exhibitions
David Korty's paintings have been shown on numerous international exhibition projects, including at Lax Art, Los Angeles, the Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, the Kunsthalle Basel, the museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, the Charlottenburg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen. The artist has solo exhibitions in galleries around the world.
Works in public collections
- Goetz Collection , Munich
- Olbricht Collection , Essen / Berlin
- Judith Rothschild Foundation, Flourtown
literature
- David Korty, Sadie Coles HQ, Michael Kohn Gallery, Koenig Books, London 2008
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| SURNAME | Korty, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco |