Kevin R. Brine The works featured in Brine's series The Porch of the Caryatids: Drawings, Paintings and Sculptures are developed from Brine's sketches (2003-2004) of the Caryatids (sculptured female figures serving as ornamental support in place of a column or pilaster) at the Erechtheum on the Acropolis and a sculpture of Artemis of Ephesus at the Vatican Museum. In the Greek Myth of Diana/Artemis at her bath, told by Ovid in Metamorphoses, three central protagonists emerge: a caryatid, Artemis of Ephesus, and Actaeon. Together these 3 figures constitute the visual vocabulary of Kevin Brine's project The Porch of the Caryatids. In his forward in the book of the same title, Brine describes the storyline of this myth as follows: "The caryatids [are] statues of female dancers at the yearly festival of Artemis at Karyatis, a Greek village of antiquity. When the Romans conquered Anatolia, they equated Diana, the Western goddess of the hunt and the moon, with Artemis of Ephesus, the Eastern goddess of the hunt and the moon... In Ovid's version [...] the hunter Actaeon comes upon a grotto, where Diana is undressing and gazes at the naked goddess. The virgin huntress in anger transforms him into a stag. Then, Diana commands Actaeon's own hunting dogs to devour him. All that is left of Actaeon after the feast is the heart of a stag. The hunter is sacrificed as prize of the hunt". Translated into loose forms rich in expressive line and color, Brine's work captures the vigor and dramatic lyricism inherent in this myth by means of abstraction. Additionally, Brine has taken his expression one step further by creating steel sculptures. These works directly reflect the paintings on canvas but break the two-dimensional plane, thus taking the abstraction of space and form to a different physical and metaphorical level.