#painting-process

#painting-process

David Zwirner is pleased to present Destiny, an exhibition of new paintings by Josh Smith, on view at the gallery's 606 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. This is Smith's first solo presentation in Los Angeles. For Destiny, Smith has made a series of paintings that continue his long-running dialogue with the grim reaper, a figure that has appeared in his work for years in countless guises.

Born in 1956 in San Francisco, Karen Barbour lives and works in Inverness, CA. Her paintings evidence a dazzling hallucination, a private language pieced together through a relentless spiritual pursuit, and an index of seemingly endless revisions, propositions, and barely-perceptible apparitions that thoroughly attenuate our perceptual faculties. Her work develops slowly over great lengths of time, and she has been focused for the past several years on reworking paintings begun in the 80s and 90s.