By ELISABETH KIRSCH
Special to The Star
Posted on Wed, Jun. 08, 2011
In the ambitious exhibit “Consumer Foreplay,” Davin Watne’s paintings, installations and sculptures take the subject of over-consumption to a new level. If Watne’s dark and theatrical paintings recall the dramatic, heroic painting styles of such 19th-century artists as J.M.W. Turner and Eugene Delacroix, his flamboyant and deliberately garish sculptures would be at home in the Folies Bergere. In this show, Watne wants to have his cake and eat it too — his work ranges from the glamorous to the deadly — and for the most part he succeeds. Continue Reading…
