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KAREN DAVID
  • Home
  • | STUDIO
    • - Piped Oil Paintings
    • - I Want to Believe
    • - Ceramic Tablets
    • - Marbling on paper
    • - Obsidian Mirror
    • Exhibitions
    • Curating
      • The Collector's Room
      • The Waiting Room
      • Perimeter Space
        • Do Re Mi Fa So La Te, Perimeter Space (8 Mar - 20 Apr 2018)
      • Cork Lined Rooms
    • PhD
  • | WRITING
  • | NEWS
  • | ABOUT
  • | CV
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  • Fraudulent mediums and miracle-mongers: Illusion, concealment and revelation in the works of Crivelli, Greenberg and Houdini

    Article for the Journal of Contemporary Painting (Vol 10:1) placing in conversation Clement Greenberg and Harry Houdini in their engagement with a search for a truth and draws subtle parallels in their biographies. Greenberg searched for an essence in the material realm of paint and Houdini searched the paranormal through mediumistic séances, both looking to reduce or debunk ideas of illusion in their fields, or more specifically, deception.

  • Full of Days, Hermione Burton and Andy Holden

    The Gallery of Everything, London, 19 March–30 April 2023
    Reviewed by Karen David, Glasgow School of Art
    For the Journal of Contemporary Painting (Vol 9:2)

  • Spirit in the Sky for The Open Arms

    Retelling of The Little Match Girl for 2021.
    The Open Arms is an online project by Sally O'Reilly: "The Open Arms unbolted its doors when all other pubs closed theirs. It is a focus for and record of locked-down conviviality. Dive in for a swift sharpener or settle down to a hearty session. Turn the music up or off, avoid anyone you don't like the look of. The place is yours. And better still - everything is on the house."

  • Fabled Times 2020

    Magazine that accompanied The Collector's Room and included first-hand accounts of the exhibition which never opened in lockdown.

  • Notes on a Collection, JGM Gallery

    Essay on works in exhibition and their possible connections to stage magic. P.34-45 The Collector’s Room catalogue, JGM Gallery

  • Over Me you Cast a Spell, JGM Gallery

    Fiction imagining Harry Houdini's handcuffs as a sentient object. P.16-17 The Collector’s Room catalogue, JGM Gallery, 2020

  • Dark Skies by Karen David, Katie Goodwin’s Lightness and Kaamos films shown at TAP Southend

    Dark Skies: A text on Light Pollution / Katie Goodwin’s Lightness and Kaamos films shown at TAP Southend, 2015

    Dark Skies: A text on Light Pollution / Katie Goodwin’s Lightness and Kaamos films shown at TAP Southend

  • The Breakfast Menu by Karen David

    Catalogue text for Geometric Sequences; exhibition by Fiona Grady & Patrick Mifsud at Husk Galler, 2014

  • A Pair of Shoes by Karen David, Alastair Gordon at The Nunnery

    Catalogue text for The Feet of Those; exhibition by Alastair Gordon at The Nunnery, 2014

  • Day 1-5 by Karen David, Lightness by Katie Goodwin

    Invited blogger for The Lightness project; a 2 part film project by artist Katie Goodwin

    Lightness a 16mm film, shot mostly at night over late summer 2014 in Greenwich, London & Glenelg, Scottish Highlands, exploring light pollution and its effects. This blog exploring themes in Lightness has been contributed by artists Alex March, Jane Harris. Holly Stevenson, Othello De Souza Hartley, Karen David & Ian Maslen.

  • Jan 2014: Crux Desperationis 5 - director and editor Riccardo Boglione

    Searching for the Viable Essence has been included (on p.25) in the International Journal of Conceptual Writing: Crux Desperationis 5

  • Searching for the Viable Essence | Exhibition booklet

    Self-published exhibition booklet including an essay by Mary Paterson to accompany solo show at Jacob's Island gallery 2011

  • Type Face | James Petrucci by Karen David

    Exhibition essay for Type Face | James Petrucci | 2013

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