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① Artwork:
Orange Bat
This painting explores how bats have symbolized benevolent and malevolent forces in fiction and religion around the world for thousands of years. This strikes the artist as ironic, as a healthy population of bats often protects humanity from deadly pathogens spread by mosquitos, such as malaria and dengue fever.
Tobin frequently uses x-rays as jumping-off points for his painterly experimentations with the figure. Underneath the top layer of this painting vibrates hieroglyphic inscriptions like spit-out bones. The artist’s words, what he might tell you in his dreams, are hidden behind the painting’s uppermost skin. Tobin’s work frequently contemplates extinction and the daily labor taken to fend it off. The artist's paintings focus almost entirely on the vital rhythms we are most afraid to acknowledge.
Specs:
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.
This painting explores how bats have symbolized benevolent and malevolent forces in fiction and religion around the world for thousands of years. The artist frequently uses x-rays as jumping-off points for his painterly experimentations with the figure.More
- Unframed
- Signed
