Annette Lemieux "The Last Suppa"
Paul Kasmin Gallery
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The cow is both subject and vehicle in Annette Lemieux's latest foray into the folklore and symbolism of the American farm. Imagery culled from 1950's livestock books opens itself to multiple interpretations, associating freely with ideas from religion, art history and popular culture.
In these new works, golden calves, angelic milkmaids, and holy straw hats playfully invoke the iconography of religious traditions. Together, they form a dialogue that evolves as it travels from piece to piece. For example, in Mary with Holy Figure, a young woman appears next to a cow wearing a straw hat. The idea that the hat might constitute a halo led Lemieux to make another work - a gold gilded straw sombrero. These two works were also linked by Lemieux's discovery that the early etymology of "halo" includes the crop circle created by threshing oxen. The young woman makes a repeat appearance, literally, in Twenty-Five Hail Marys, without the straw-hatted cow, silkscreened into a grid of twenty-five that are nearly identical other than the natural variations generated by the printmaking process.
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from January 06, 2010 to February 07, 2010