Gagosian New York will present Shooters, an exhibition of recent paintings by Harmony Korine. Korine’s films merge fiction and reality, shaky footage with precise editing, seen in Kids (1995) and Spring Breakers (2012). The unplanned, seductive, and outlandish qualities of his films also resonate in his lesser-known paintings, which he creates with materials such as squeegees, leftover household paint, and masking tape.
Reflecting the visual motifs of his films, Korine’s paintings are loosely sequential. In Starburst, red, blue, and yellow dyes are layered from the centre outwards to create a radiant, explosive composition. Likewise, Loop Paintings consists of photographs taken of youth dressed up as elderly people, and laid out on canvas in idiosyncratic progressions, evoking the earlier serial experiments of Eadweard Muybridge and Andy Warhol. The sequential, hypnotic quality of Korine’s paintings is balanced with impulsive outbursts of dynamism, exemplifying what Korine calls the elements of “mistakism” in his work.
Harmony Korine Starburst (2013)
Ink on canvas
289.6 x 231.1 cm
Harmony Korine Gatekeepers (2013)
Latex and spray paint on canvas
208.3 x 180.3 cm
Harmony Korine Blue Checker (2014)
Oil on canvas
259.1 x 213.4 cm
by Louise Lui
All images © Harmony Korine. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Robert McKeever
Shooters will run from May 12 – June 21, 2014