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303 GALLERY - Karen Kilimnik - paintings and collages

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Channel: NYC GALLERY OPENINGS · 2016 · Entertainment

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Artist: Karen Kilimnik
Exhibition Title: Solo Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: February 18 – March 26, 2016
Gallery Link: http://www.303gallery.com/index.php?exhid=396/exhibition/4141/#&panel1-1

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In new paintings and collages, Kilimnik creates richly enigmatic narratives, inscribing her images with signifiers that obliquely reference histories of representation and myth. In two new paintings, "going off to the Battle" tapestry - off to a glittering start and a sketchy start - "going off to the battle" tapestry, Kilimnik mines the vernacular of tapestry reproductions of Baroque and Renaissance painting imagery. Embracing the prosaic nature of these classical scenes with happy aplomb, Kilimnik doubles down on the expressive potential of the reproduction, rendering her scenes with patchy brushwork and sprinkling her finished paintings with glitter. In another new painting, the sea monster decides to make itself at home in the palace of a river or god of the sea-by piero bonifazio ALGIERI- 1740s, paris underground river, ballet or theatrical stage scenery becomes a point of departure, as the fanciful world of illusion begets a delicate new form of realism. Removed from but still reverent of their original source material, the paintings glow with new life, Kilimnik?s way of looking not only backward to look forward, but of transmitting her own fascination with the exegesis of legend.

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