Laura Krifka – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS

By way of personal and very carefully made figurative paintings, San Luis Obispo, California-centered artist Laura Krifka (beforehand featured in this article) dissects the mechanisms of electric power, id, and observation located in visual culture. With non-descript references to the historical past of portray, Krifka incorporates the modern frameworks of film and pictures into her knowing of portraiture and psychology. By collapsing various views of the identical pose, topic, house, and time into every portray she generates scenes that seem deceptively uncomplicated, but are rife with distortions, puzzles, and actual physical impossibilities that make visible factuality tenuous and obstacle a viewer’s perceptual capabilities.

Krifka directs each individual advanced narrative as paintings unravel and reform gradually in excess of months and even decades. Protagonists inhabit domestic spaces, from time to time gazing assertively out of their canvases, other instances disappearing into the wallpaper, but usually vulnerable. Her figures occupy a variety of states of undress, preparation, or play, expressing an relieve with intimacy and an acknowledgement that the act of hunting is a central ingredient of desire. The pleasure of observation is echoed in Krifka’s personal words and phrases: “…our pleasures and perversions have been molded by the fictions that permeate our ubiquitous visual tradition. That our most solution needs are partially shaped by our codified, collective activities is a supply of endless fascination for me.”

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