NYAB Event - Lisa Krivacka "Almost Utopia"

Lisa Krivacka "Almost Utopia"

Frederieke Taylor Gallery

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Frederieke Taylor Gallery presents Lisa Krivacka's new body of work titled Almost Utopia, consisting of brightly colored paintings of architecture, interior spaces, and landscapes. Using postcards she has collected, as well as found snapshots, design books, and magazines from the 1960's and 70's as inspiration, the paintings take on a surreal quality of the American landscape from that time period.
As the artist states: "It began with a postcard of the Monsanto House of the Future at Disneyland. The attraction opened in 1957 and offered a tour of a futuristic house, set in the year 1986. Of course, it was wildly optimistic and futuristic looking—and not at all what living looked like in the late 1980's. In the end, the Monsanto house was destroyed in 1967.
This postcard made me aware of a trend that was occurring in American design, attitude and culture, particularly during the 1960's and 1970's, which was a push towards the modern, contemporary or futuristic-even the more banal and mundane, such as municipal buildings and motels, tried to appear progressive.
I've noticed a similar trend in the 21st century towards the futuristic and the utopic in the proliferation of magazines and articles that are geared towards future living, whether it is in the form of living green for environmental purposes or in the form of quirky looking architecture. Through painting these seemingly idyllic images, I am exploring different notions of utopia."