Raphaela Riepl "Adorable Steamed Sea Urchin"

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“I get started with what ever can drive me there. Probably I get somewhere else pretty soon, cause it evolves every second. And I can’t deny that I like entertaining myself, so you really gotta be tricky to surprise your own mind. Well I guess it’s all of a process, which doesn’t mean it can’t feel awesome in the state it is. ” – Raphaela Riepl

Raphaela Riepl’s work is made out of boxes, drawings, words, Christmas lights, various found objects and detritus. It is a collection of her mind, seemingly placed at random and constantly moving. It is as if the work is adjusting itself to ones angle or mood allowing an emersion into one narrative stream or another. Dark Irony and humor abound, Riepl’s work does not try to tell a story but rather is a puzzle to be completed by the viewer.

The reoccurrence of sea creatures in her work can be taken as a desire to float through bright colors surrounded by dull sounds. In her 2010 Greenpoint Open Studios she fashioned packaging peanuts to resemble shrimp, some having wings and flying from the ceiling, others stuffed in a pot and ready to be cooked and One holding a martini glass with a handwritten note: “Shrimp Heaven“

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from March 04, 2011 to March 31, 2011
Opening Hours: Wed/Thurs: 11am-3pm; Fri/Sat: 3-7pm

Opening Reception on 2011-03-04 from 19:00 to 23:00

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Raphaela Riepl

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