
Lover's Leap
2019
Lover's Leap presents a luminous, layered surface that captures the tense threshold between abandon and consequence. Completed in 2019, this substantial acrylic on epoxy resin and foam panel work by Kyle Dunn measures nearly five feet across, commanding the wall with both physical presence and chromatic intensity. The resin substrate gives Dunn's painted marks an unusual depth and translucency, as though color is suspended in amber rather than simply applied to a surface, lending the work a jewel-like quality that rewards sustained looking from varying distances and angles. Dunn's practice is rooted in the tension between control and release, and Lover's Leap embodies that push-and-pull with particular force. The title evokes a moment of irreversible commitment, a surrender to velocity and feeling, and the work's formal energy supports that reading throughout. Gestural passages collide with more deliberate compositional decisions, creating a visual drama that feels simultaneously impulsive and rigorously considered. The foam panel construction contributes a subtle sculptural dimension, the slight relief adding to the sense that the work exists somewhere between painting and object. For collectors, this is a work that holds up across years of living with it, revealing new relationships between its layers as light conditions shift throughout the day. Offered through P.P.O.W, it arrives signed by the artist and unframed, allowing for installation flexibility suited to contemporary interiors. At 121.9 by 167.6 centimeters, it carries genuine scale without overwhelming a domestic or institutional setting, making it a compelling acquisition from a significant moment in Dunn's ongoing investigation of materiality and emotion.
- Medium
- Acrylic on epoxy resin and foam panel
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · P.P.O.W
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