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The artist advances by persuing both complexity and simplicity.
Often a breakthrough somehow discovers the one in the other, along
with new ways of perceiving and managing both. Kevin Larkin's latest
works are his strongest: more than ever the picture and the painting
are one and the same. There is no excess, nothing to demonstrate
technique or to prove good work - only the success of the painting.
Such simplicity is a risk: when there is no display of prowess,
one risks the charge of not knowing what one is doing. Kevin Larkin
is indifferent to charges: his only concern is to make a picture that
works well.
Even when one's tested and proven approaches demand work that is
greatly challenging, there is no challenge quite like that of
inventing oneself anew, and Kevin Larkin has worked this way
so assiduously he is no longer able to settle for anything
less: if it's not that, it's not painting.
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