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BASTIENNE SCHMIDT @ Ricco/Maresca Gallery
BASTIENNE SCHMIDT: TYPOLOGY OF WOMEN
JULY 21 – AUGUST 19, 2016
OPENING RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING WITH THE ARTIST: JULY 21, 6-8pm
Schmidt’s silhouettes (rendered in luminous orange as an ironic parallel to a reading of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own) portray nuances while unfixing received ideas. Arts writer Mimi Thompson writes in “The Subversive Silhouette,” the introductory critical essay to Schmidt’s book:
“The silhouettes of female forms in her Typology of Women series recall familiar styles, occupations and cultural identities in anthropological outline; for instance one figure resembles a cancan dancer holding up her skirt and another calls to mind a fashion model from the 1950s. But small additional details within the painterly orange and yellow silhouettes, such as other figures and marks, complicate the identity suggested by each shape’s perimeter; Schmidt calls these additional figures and forms ‘the running patterns of women’s lives’.”
Ricco/Maresca Gallery (529 West 20th Street, 3rd, New York, NY 10011)
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