JOHN HAWKE
Supervisors
July 22 – August 26, 2006
Michael Kohn Gallery, 8071 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048
323 658 8088 (t)
323 658 8068 (f)
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In his second solo exhibition at the Michael Kohn Gallery, John Hawke, continues to explore the use of plein air practice to focus on the geometric forms of his surroundings. This traditional technique of painting outdoors, dating back to the early 19th century is combined with Hawke’s contemporary sensibility of his urban landscape. His work also questions how an artist is able to work on site in a public urban space.
His reductive painting of the Brooklyn cityscape and his use of a bold palette allows for both a minimal and complex visual composition. In Hawke’s paintings “the towering forms and implied fences, the supervisors, of the title, organize separation of the accessible and inaccessible, what is hovering and what is cemented in place.” However distilled these landscapes may be, the shapes convey Hawke’s message as well as draw the viewer into his world.
Hawke received his MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and his work is in the collection of the Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA.
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323.658.8088