I am drawn to the rich texture in McKenzie Dove‘s paintings, and to the beautiful simplicity of her geometric plaster sculptures. Her scratches and scribbles are reminiscent of Twombly. Her thick, sweeps of paint are applied with a knife. Dove grew up in a small town in Texas. The population was 2,500. “I would literally ride my horse into town, buy supplies, and go sketch till sunset,” she says. Years later, she now lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama in a gorgeous Tudor style white-washed studio with soaring ceilings and heaps of natural sunlight. I love the texture of this white canvas, and the quiet boldness of these black on black shapes. Dove is young, and already very collectible.