{"id":18752,"date":"2013-10-28T10:24:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T15:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=18752"},"modified":"2013-10-28T11:25:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T16:25:26","slug":"kent-dorn-almost-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2013\/10\/28\/kent-dorn-almost-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"~KENT DORN . . ALMOST PARADISE"},"content":{"rendered":"

MORE PIX FROM THE OPENING . . <\/p>\n

KENT DORN . . . ‘SHADOWLAND’
\n& video projection in the back room by REBECCA GOYETTE
\nOCT 17 – NOV 16, 2013
\nFREIGHT+VOLUME<\/a> – 530 WEST 24TH ST – CHELSEA, NYC<\/p>\n

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\nKENT DORN and NICK LAWRENCE at the opening.
\nI’m so . . into ‘big’ hats. Hash Halper wears one too.<\/p>\n

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\nCORY in front of KENT DORN’S . . . ‘Almost Paradise.’ <\/p>\n

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\nKENT DORN, ‘Almost Paradise’, 2013.
\nmixed media on canvas, 45 x 60 in.
\n($8,000)<\/p>\n

so I was wondering why Nick would pair REBECCA GOYETTE’S over-the-top video with a KENT DORN show.
\nmaybe this painting is a clue . . .”almost paradise”, anybody ?<\/p>\n

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\neven with 2 suns, this painting also says: paradise lost.<\/p>\n

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\nKENT DORN, ‘Shadowland’, 2013.
\nmixed media on canvas, 75 x 60 in.
\n($14,000)<\/p>\n

2 suns ?
\nmaybe that’s a truly .. mutated world, of the future.
\nit’s kind of a ‘fierce’ .. image \/ metaphor. <\/p>\n

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\nwell they both, GOYETTE and DORN have a lot to say about water, though one references the secret and terrifying ‘life’ beneath salt sea water . . while the later, Kent Dorn: the ‘mystery’ life atop a kind of ‘fading glory’ .. lake water. they both speak .. ‘fierce’.
\nesp in terms of pure visual ‘technique’.<\/p>\n

they both speak to human desire, and ‘mating’. and degrading. ritual. being lost, and not in control.
\nthough it’s a bit of a . . raw call. an over-the-top contrast.<\/p>\n

but while Ms. Goyette, is deliberately .. very trashy<\/strong> in her expression, she is at least racially diverse. Mr. Dorn zeros in a counter culture that is all white, and counter culture trashy<\/strong>. but then, the painting is damn: serious.<\/p>\n

both are very: entertaining. for all the darkness, it’s really just .. food for thought.
\na kind of a visual ‘fish’ food . . that comes drifting down the everyday pipeline.<\/p>\n

I mean it’s strange to write about. Rebecca’s work is so outrageous, so fun, and yet ultimately, reads .. sad.
\nKent Dorn’s work .. is harder to peg.
\nit skews ‘dark’, and yet .. reads extremely beautiful.<\/p>\n

I’m sure someone could dig into those 2 opposing landscapes, and come up .. with a book.
\nAlmost Paradise . .
\nhuman behavior . . for the soft-fleshed creatures we are, with brains, and comprehensive history, Kent Dorn’s paintings aren’t that far from saying . . what Ms. Goyette is saying ..
\nmaybe we do need . . shells.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MORE PIX FROM THE OPENING . . KENT DORN . . . ‘SHADOWLAND’ & video projection in the back room by REBECCA GOYETTE OCT 17 – NOV 16, 2013 FREIGHT+VOLUME – 530 WEST 24TH ST – CHELSEA, NYC KENT DORN and NICK LAWRENCE at the opening. I’m so . . into ‘big’ hats. Hash Halper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18752"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18779,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18752\/revisions\/18779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}