Kristen Schiele works in painting, collage and scenic installations. Having taught printmaking at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC and studied stop-animation in Berlin, Germany, her painting has developed into a layering of silkscreen and acrylic to oil paint, to create detailed, sculptural surfaces.
The most recent painting is inspired by stylized erotic horror movies of the late 1960-1970s. The scenes use cinematic lighting, props and exaggerated psychological conditions that play on sexuality and gender. The women in the paintings are sexual sirens of the erotica movies, 70s pulp magazines, and fashion models. Objects of desire, they turn the tables on weakness and victimhood with horror and exaggerated stereotypes or break down into decorative patterns, leaving a disassociated signal of nudity and object . They are adorning, challenging and owning the original context of kitsch, myth, and fetish-eroticism.
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opening Janurary 16, 2010
"The Woman on Women" curated by Yasmine Mohseni
Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
2660 S. La Cienega Blvd.
LA, CA 90034
http://www.taylordecordoba.com/
The most recent painting is inspired by stylized erotic horror movies of the late 1960-1970s. The scenes use cinematic lighting, props and exaggerated psychological conditions that play on sexuality and gender. The women in the paintings are sexual sirens of the erotica movies, 70s pulp magazines, and fashion models. Objects of desire, they turn the tables on weakness and victimhood with horror and exaggerated stereotypes or break down into decorative patterns, leaving a disassociated signal of nudity and object . They are adorning, challenging and owning the original context of kitsch, myth, and fetish-eroticism.
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opening Janurary 16, 2010
"The Woman on Women" curated by Yasmine Mohseni
Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
2660 S. La Cienega Blvd.
LA, CA 90034
http://www.taylordecordoba.com/
