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

By intimate and cautiously created figurative paintings, San Luis Obispo, California-based mostly artist Laura Krifka (beforehand featured listed here) dissects the mechanisms of electrical power, identification, and observation uncovered in visual society. With non-descript references to the background of painting, Krifka incorporates the up to date frameworks of movie and photography into her being familiar with of portraiture and psychology. By collapsing a number of views of the identical pose, subject, house, and time into each painting she creates scenes that appear deceptively very simple, but are rife with distortions, puzzles, and actual physical impossibilities that make visual factuality tenuous and challenge a viewer’s perceptual capabilities.

Krifka directs just about every sophisticated narrative as paintings unravel and reform slowly but surely about months and even several years. Protagonists inhabit domestic areas, often gazing assertively out of their canvases, other instances disappearing into the wallpaper, but usually vulnerable. Her figures occupy many states of undress, planning, or enjoy, expressing an relieve with intimacy and an acknowledgement that the act of looking is a central ingredient of wish. The satisfaction of observation is echoed in Krifka’s personal text: “…our pleasures and perversions have been molded by the fictions that permeate our ubiquitous visible society. That our most secret wishes are partially formed by our codified, collective activities is a supply of limitless fascination for me.”

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