Kyle Staver, Bad Dog on Sparta Road, 2007

oil on linen, 68 x 56 inches

For immediate release

Kyle Staver

Recent Works

November 23 - December 22, 2007

Opening reception Thursday, November 29, 5 to 7 pm

Lohin Geduld Gallery is proud to present our second exhibition of painting and works on paper by Kyle Staver.

In this recent series of figure paintings, Kyle Staver presents a world of bikers, loving couples, and voluptuous women. Ordinary moments that make up the fabric of human existence are transformed by Staver into vignettes filled with grace, empathy, and surprise. Men and women cohabitate environments, intimately relating to one another. A biker and his rider are chased by a frenzied dog. A woman reflects upon her mirrored self. Staver investigates the fragility and drama of life, complete with all its trappings, joys and sorrow.

These contemporary scenes are enhanced by Staver’s remarkable painterly inventions. Light flickers and bounces through her compositions. Luminous passages of translucent color daze and warm our senses. Her looping lines can suggest the speed and joy of the open road, or the subtle caress of undergarment on skin. Space and light are not merely depicted, but seem to be felt and massaged into existence. Staver composes with planar shifts and scale changes, creating abstract patterns and directional vectors that propel her narratives. Imagined interior dialogues mingle with visual pleasures, as we become both voyeur and participant in Staver’s sensually painted world.

Kyle Staver received her BA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and MFA in Painting from Yale University in 1987. She also attended Camberwell College of Arts in London. Her work has been exhibited at Lohin Geduld Gallery, Denise Bibro Gallery, and Maurice Arlos Fine Arts in New York, at Hackett-Feedman Gallery in San Francisco, and at Atticus Bookstore Café in New Haven. Ms. Staver is a recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and the Benjamin Altman Figure Prize from the National Academy of Design.

Lohin Geduld Gallery is located at 531 West 25th Street in New York, NY. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 to 6. For more information or more images of the work, please visit our website atwww.lohingeduld.com, call 212 675 2656 or email us at info@lohingeduld.com.