Kristen Schiele "Elektra"
Sloan Fine Art
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With her new body of work "Elektra," Kristen Schiele continues her celebration of strong female characters and deconstruction of architectural settings. Utilizing a variety of techniques including silkscreen, painting and ink transfers, Schiele achieves a disjointed, densely layered effect, creating paintings that are at once timeless, nostalgic, fierce and contemporary. Compositions are cut apart, x-rayed and reassembled. Stages are set and cast with subjects straight from classic pulp novel and fashion magazine covers. As in her inspiration, B-movie and classic horror films, the objects, patterns, costumes and characters are mythological, kitsch symbols. The final works are designed and decorated environments in which the “bad girl” clearly holds all the cards- if not a knife.
[Image: Kristen Schiele "Good Bad-Girls" (2010) silkscreen, airbrush & oil on canvas 23 x 32 in.]
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from April 21, 2010 to May 15, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-04-21 from 18:00 to 20:00