Douglas Kolk

Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Douglas Kolk. This will be the artist's first solo exhibition in New York since 1997. The show will include eight large-scale works on paper. Kolk makes dense compositions that are dark and poignant. Whereas his early drawings depict the fragility of his young and mournfully afflicted characters with a spare and startlingly abrupt line, his recent painting/drawing/collage works display a horror vacui of unrestricted gesture. Here KolkÍs particularly nightmarish vision is rendered uncooked. 

Evoking the fragmented narratives of American artists...Douglas Kolk's collaged drawings explore an over-identification with television culture. His poster-sized work broadcasts a chaotic media: displaced figures, consumer logos and fairytale ghoulies abound in his channel-surfing style. Through his fragmented compositions, Kolk captures an adolescent zeitgeist. His images present fragile and fluctuating notions of identity and corrupted innocence... His forms range from the poetically detailed to the violently doodled, his sentiments overlapping in precarious balance. Combining media