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artists
david kearns
"Also been thinking about the ducks...As deadly serious as I take painting, I've always been interested in work that used humor, for its own sake as entertainment and also as a means to lower people's guard and/or disarm certain 'awful truths. There is the comedy cliché, I think attributed to the Marx Brothers, about the inherently funny quality of ducks, and even the word 'duck' itself."
- David Kearns
David Kearns' unique way of drawing is strikingly inventive and expressive. The way he arranges images in the picture plane is unconventional. It should not work but it does perhaps because of Kearns' ability to paint. Recently a curator described Kearns' technical grace with paint as, "he moves paint like Philip Guston. It is almost as if he can't help himself, there is a luscious quality to his painting and a love for moving paint that comes through in every stroke."
Kearns is a prolific producer of painting and drawing. He received his a BA in Studio Art from Yale and a Masters of Fine Art from Johnson State College in Vermont. This exhibition of work was created while in residency at the Vermont Studio Center.