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Kohn Gallery is honored to present its first solo exhibition with Los Angeles-based painter and multimedia artist Kate... moreKohn Gallery is honored to present its first solo exhibition with Los Angeles-based painter and multimedia artist Kate Barbee. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Barbee makes forcefully expressive large-scale paintings, whose abundance of colors, gestures, abstract forms, and layers of mixed media converge in dream-like images of figures—mostly women—in domestic tableaux. At once intimately personal and yet evocative of universal experiences of emotion and connection, Barbee’s works are relational, environmental portraits that favor sensation over precision. She captures the moods, vulnerabilities, desires, and power struggles of her subjects, working with an open-ended, responsive process that calls to mind German Expressionist and Neo-Expressionist forebears, shot through with a decidedly contemporary approach to form, process, and material. less
