Marylyn Dintenfass "Souped Up/Tricked Out"

Driscoll Babcock Galleries

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The gallery presents Marylyn Dintenfass’ solo exhibition, a visceral, visual series of oil paintings inspired by a complex love affair with automobiles.

Dintenfass is known for her use of lush color and an organic lexicon of gestural abstract imagery to express encounters with everyday sensual pleasures. Art critic Lilly Wei calls her work, “A bracing example of an experiential painting for the present.” In this series of work, Dintenfass looks into the lustrous machine that has captured America’s cultural imagination for decades.

"Souped Up / Tricked Out" brings forth the high-octane, the fleshy, the chrome and chroma of iconic postwar automobiles and their embedded connotations of speed, beauty, identity, and technology. With classic rock and roll lyrics appearing in the titles, and markings reminiscent of looped tire tracks or brilliant headlights undulating across gridded panels, Dintenfass’ paintings speak to a nostalgic sense of freedom. But the translucent layers reveal the dualities that have lurked beneath the brightly painted surfaces all along. In an age of considering consequences and change, Dintenfass reminds us “Things are not what they seem.”

[Image: Marylyn Dintenfass "Maybellene in a Coup de Ville" (2010} Oil on panels 80 x 80 in.]

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from October 11, 2011 to November 18, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-10-13 from 17:00 to 20:00

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