Karin Kneffel Exhibition
Barbara Mathes Gallery
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Barbara Mathes Gallery is pleased to present recent oil paintings by Karin Kneffel in an exhibition that marks the artist's second solo show in the United States and her second with the gallery.
Known for her inventive, masterfully rendered interiors, domestic animals, landscapes, and still lifes, Kneffel's work transforms quotidian subjects into fantastical imagery through formal experimentation and virtuosic technique. While she favors painting's traditional genres, Kneffel's imaginative compositions breathe fresh life into the medium's conventions. Much like the Surrealists, she extracts uncanny or discomfiting qualities out of the most banal household objects. Perspective shifts, exaggerated proportions, dramatic foreshortening, and mysterious lighting conditions create unexpected spatial relationships that disorient and mystify the viewer. Though Kneffel's works have the pristine, reflective finish of a photograph, the scenes they depict could only exist in paint.
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from September 25, 2008 to November 01, 2008