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#MAREN KARLSON FREE#
Her latest work is included in an exhibition (opening today) at Melanie Flood Projects in Portland, Oregon, part of a spotlight on the local zine Free Spirit News. Karlson is based in Berlin, but makes use of the wide-ranging network of the Internet to collaborate with fellow artists around the world. Wild women from cyberspace and beyond are conjured in the trippy work of German artist Maren Karlson, who seduce and snarl from their lurid landscapes, all rendered in coloured pencils.
Maren Karlson, 2019 Drawing/Illustration: Maren Karlson Lane’s latest works will be showing in a two person show (alongside Bradley Wood), at Sim Smith’s new (ish) gallery in Camberwell in July. Her sculptures, uncanny, edging into the comic and sliding into the grotesque, often return to the tropes and cliches of femininity-re-making oversized bows, sky high heels and other feminine frivolities-an act of both homage and subversion. Sandra Lane grew up with the idea that women should be decorative-she’s spent much of her life since trying to get away from that and stop pleasing other people at all. (Emily Gosling) Sandra Lane, 2019 Sculpture: Sandra Lane
#MAREN KARLSON SERIES#
There is a recurring motif of eyeballs throughout whether in her depictions of a chaotic Hollywood scene or a simple series of images that delineate her week, with one created for each day (I love the particularly surreal depiction of Thursday.) Her practice takes in both illustration and design work such as editorial projects book design posters icons. “Life gets stressful from time to time,” she says, and she aims for her design and illustration to act “as a form of relief and happiness”. Taiwan-born, now New York-based illustrator and graphic designer Yuoning Chien wants to make you happy with her work, and she does. (Rosalind Duguid) Yuoning Chien, Thursday, 2019 Illustration/Graphic Design: Yuoning Chien Seifu’s paintings are featured in group show Lararium at New York’s Deli Gallery until the end of the month, alongside works by Erin Jane Nelson and ten other artists. At once influenced by the Western painting tradition and critical of its tendency only to humanize a select group of people, the figures in her works are afforded overt and intense emotions.
Her application of paint is rich, and yet she manages to make it sparkle like a crystal shrine. The tears in Eden Seifu’s paintings and illustrations glisten supernaturally as they run down the cheeks of her characters: knights in anguish, kings and queens, blue fairies and nude bathers-typically appearing in psychedelic fairytale scenes. Eden Seifu, One Day You Must Put Down Your Sword, 2018 Drawing/Painting: Eden Seifu
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