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① Artwork:
Ketamine Tea Dance
For this work, the artist uses a combination of gestural and atmospheric mark-making to depict three bats from the viral video Bat Rave, which shows bats hanging upside down appearing to dance at a rave. This popular meme was created during the pandemic as bars and nightclubs were closed worldwide. Tobin frequently uses x-rays as jumping-off points for his painterly experimentations with the figure. The artist’s work contemplates extinction and the daily labor taken to fend it off. Tobin's paintings focus almost entirely on the vital rhythms we are most afraid to acknowledge.
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③ Artist:
Kevin Tobin's paintings examine how bats are frequently used as symbols of benevolent and malevolent forces in fiction and religion. The artist often employs hollow core doors as painting substrates for his compositions; likewise, the artist uses teeth x-rays as a jumping-off point for painterly experimentations. Tobin’s paintings explore the most primal aspects of the human body—as well as how culture both connects and separates our species from the animal kingdom.
BIO:
Kevin Tobin was born in London, Ontario, Canada in 1989. The artist received a BFA from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan.
Exhibitions of Tobin’s work have taken place: at Salon 94 in New York City; The Pit in Los Angeles, California; Fragment Gallery in Moscow, Russia; and 68 Projects in Berlin, Germany; among others.
Tobin lives and works in New York City.
For this work, the artist uses a combination of gestural and atmospheric mark-making to depict three bats from the viral video “Bat Rave”, which shows bats hanging upside down appearing to dance at a rave. This popular meme was created during the pandemic as bars and nightclubs were closed worldwide.More
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