Verne Dawson

A Conversation and Book Launch
with Verne Dawson and Jennifer Krasinski
at Karma, New York
Thursday, February 13, 6–7 pm

Karma

22 East 2nd Street
New York

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 cultural critic who frequently contributes to 4Columns, Artforum, Bookforum, the New Yorker (Goings On), and other publications. Her essays have been published in numerous books and catalogs including Reza Abdoh, Jill Johnston: The Disintegration of a Critic, and Hilton Als’s Andy Warhol: The Series. Formerly a Senior Editor at Artforum, she also served as the magazine’s Digital Editorial Director, launching their video series “Artists On Writers,” and “Under the Cover.” She was on faculty in the MA Art Writing department at the School of Visual Arts (2013–2021), and has taught at Art Center College of Design, New York University, Yale University, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2012), a Rauschenberg residency (2024), and is a 2023–24 MacDowell fellow. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Reggie Burrows Hodges, Swimming in Compton: Shallow End, 2021, acrylic and pastel on linen, 51¼ × 61 inches; 130.18 × 154.94 cm, 51⅞ × 61¾ × 2½ inches; 131.78 × 156.84 × 6.35 cm (framed)

Verne Dawson and Reggie Burrows Hodges in Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained
at the Hill Art Foundation
April 21–July 21, 2023

Hill Art Foundation
239 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10001

The Hill Art Foundation is pleased to present Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures curated by the artist and writer David Salle.

The exhibition features works by Richard Aldrich, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Kevin Beasley, Cecily Brown, Francesco Clemente, Robert Colescott, Verne Dawson, Willem de Kooning, Edgar Degas, Martha Diamond, Lucio Fontana, Giambologna, Robert Gober, Mark Grotjahn, Charline von Heyl, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Callum Innes, Tamo Jugeli, Karen Kilimnik, Doron Langberg, Brice Marden, Henri Matisse, Albert Oehlen, Giuseppe Piamontini, Pablo Picasso, Walter Price, Andrea Riccio, Peter Paul Rubens, Amy Sillman, Salman Toor, Cy Twombly, Willem Danielsz van Tetrode, Nicole Wittenberg, and Christopher Wool, along with a painting from 1985 by David Salle.