Kaye Donachie: To conjure you up and make you fade

Kaye Donachie... Dusk shed by a lamp brightens the tears (2009, Oil on canvas). From Kaye Donachie: To conjure you up and make you fade at Marianne Boesky Gallery. "...Donachie's new paintings focus on five staged portraits drawn from historical biography and archival sources. These portraits depict protagonists in the artist's pictorial world in which she charts a fragmentary narrative. The paintings revisit a place in which poets and performers create a form of theater that often allows strange visions to emerge. In To conjure you up and make you fade Claire Goll, Franziska zu Reventlow and Emmy Hennings are subjects that Donachie has painted before, which simultaneously reveal themselves and disappear through the intensity of color and light across the surfaces of the works."