Pamela Joseph "Wunderlust"

Francis M. Naumann Fine Art

poster for Pamela Joseph "Wunderlust"

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“Wunderlust” is a term of the artist’s invention, a combination of the German wanderlust—meaning a desire to wander or travel—with the English word “wonder,” implying admiration or awe, particularly for something exceptionally beautiful.  The two words form an ideal summary of her paintings, which take viewers on an excursion through familiar images that are infused with unexpected and sometime comical diversions, inspiring wonder at the sheer virtuosity of the transformation.  At times these changes can be somewhat disconcerting, as when images excised from comic books appear in unexpected places.  This technique is used throughout the exhibition, but is perhaps most powerful in her series Rousseau Cinématique, nine paintings based on Henri Rousseau’s The Horse Being Attacked by a Jaguar (1910).  Here, Joseph begins the process by working with a postcard reproduction of the Rousseau painting, integrating—by means of collage—images culled from erotic comic books, so that throughout the scene, women’s heads and body parts appear and seem to disappear within the dense jungle foliage.  Since the process began with a postcard, Joseph then reproduces the nine resultant paintings in a postcard pack, which not only enhances the cinematic effect, but which also amusingly restores the imagery to its original source.

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from November 11, 2009 to December 23, 2009

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Pamela Joseph

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