Hazel Lee Santino Exhibition

Art During the Occupation Gallery / Brooklyn Fire Proof

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Hazel Lee Santino was born in New York (where she now lives and works) and grew up on the Lost Coast in California. She received a BFA in Illustration and a BA in Literary Studies from Parsons and Eugene Lang in 2012. Her work has been included in group shows at The Lodge Gallery, Nancy Margolis Gallery, Mayson Gallery (New York, NY); Art 3 Gallery, ArtHelix, Bunnycutlet and Temporary Storage Gallery (Brooklyn, NY); Blanc Gallery (Manila, Philippines); and numerous now-nameless pop-up spaces. She has had commercial work commissioned by Rachel Antonoff, the Baffler, Soylent, and Topic. This is her first solo exhibition.

“Storms with Women’s Names is an ongoing investigation into lust and rage, and the satisfactions of both. The paintings in the exhibit - on paper, miniature hand-cut wood pieces and 12’ unstretched canvases - fall into two bodies of work, facing off; Venus and the Furies.
These two bodies of work are separate, perhaps even in opposition, but are also deeply cross-contaminated. Flowers, no matter how deadly their defenses may be to man, are gaudily-decorated sex organs. The remnants that wash to shore and adorn the beach are the result of violent action. All the works are permeated by the vanity of attempting to create breathing illusions of nature and the obvious materiality of imperfect replicas.

A scientific fact, romanticized:
A storm occurs when two different pressure systems meet; conflicting forces creating a more powerful whole. The calm at the eye is either the impossibility of action when torn in two directions, or it is a comfortable vantage point for introspection.”