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Post by sleepboy on Nov 16, 2009 12:19:34 GMT -8
This new body of work is amazing! Just wait until you see the rest of it. The Honey Trap Oil and ink on canvas 40 x 40 in.  Death Finds Chloe Oil and ink on canvas 30 x 40 in.  The Last Known Whereabouts of Penny Stone Oil and ink on canvas 30 x 30 in.  |
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Post by joshualinergallery on Nov 17, 2009 12:52:53 GMT -8
Thanks for starting this one off Sleep.
Press release attached below, preview link goes out tomorrow, please let us know if you would like to preview the work.
Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Tiny Drama, an exhibition of new paintings by the South African artist Candice Tripp.This is Tripp’s first solo show with the gallery.
Working in oil and ink on canvas,Tripp creates a precisely realized view of childhood that at first glance seems nostalgic, even precious. Medium-sized and uniformly square, for the most part, the nineteen pictures of Tiny Drama all depict small, finely rendered scenes of child figures in bucolic settings against a white background. What viewers quickly come to understand is that this pictorial technique is entirely ironical, mimicking the culture’s tendency to minimize the difficulties and dilemmas of childhood. If adulthood represents the successful repression of childhood traumas, Tripp’s project is to force the return of the repressed through a suite of clever, fable-like vignettes.
In The Honey Trap, a boy wearing a pig mask is tempted to follow a trail of pink cupcakes toward a bare, menacing tree. In Sometimes the Skull Monkeys Break Out, not-yet-controlled impulses are literalized as a pack of monkeys escaping from the back of a girl’s head. Though wearing adorable outfits, the children all have blue-tinted skin, an arresting clue to their internal states of mind. All hide behind animal masks that when dropped reveal not faces but a whirling miasma of indistinct form and smeared paint—this action can bring both conflict and relief, as shown in Tiny Drama and The Luxury of Being Left Alone for a Little Bit. By contrast, the one image with no child and a discarded mask, The Last Known Whereabouts of Penny Stone, takes this stand-in for socialization to various unsettling conclusions.
Tripp uses these details to great narrative effect, but a psychological payoff is what she strives for. By isolating the scenes against a white field of negative space, she condenses and intensifies the presence of each tiny drama, much like the goal of “dream work” in the practice of depth psychology. In referencing the construction of personae through the use of masks and fantasy, the artist suggests that childhood is not so much a time of innocence but rather an intense, often perilous negotiation with the world.
Born in 1985 in Cape Town, South Africa,Candice Tripp currently lives and works in Newcastle, United Kingdom. Solo exhibitions of her work include Home IsWhere The Telly Is, Lazarides 77 Quayside, Newcastle (2008), and Candice Tripp, Electrik Sheep, Newcastle (2007). Selected group exhibitions include The Arrival, Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke, UK (2009);Outsiders, Lazarides Charing Cross, London (2008) Lazarides 77 Quayside opening group show, Newcastle, UK (2007).
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Post by thinkspace on Nov 18, 2009 19:29:54 GMT -8
Candice has knocked it out with this one and SOLID sales already - very cool for her 1st US solo. Was lucky enough to score one from her Lazarides solo and just great to see her connecting so well with this show.
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Post by Weekender on Nov 23, 2009 15:36:41 GMT -8
Hello everyone! Im new here...anyways... I got "The Honey Trap"   Cant wait to see it in person since im in Sydney at the moment! Any feedbacks on this one? I do know it looks great on JOshua Liner's website and posts! Cheers! |
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Post by droow2 on Nov 23, 2009 15:40:26 GMT -8
Hey Thomas, welcome aboard That looks amazing, I think one of the nicest in the show, congrats! |
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Post by Weekender on Nov 23, 2009 15:42:36 GMT -8
Hey Thanks for the warm welcome! Cheers!
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Post by sleepboy on Nov 23, 2009 15:44:29 GMT -8
Hello everyone! Im new here...anyways... Cant wait to see it in person since im in Sydney at the moment! Any feedbacks on this one? I do know it looks great on JOshua Liner's website and posts! Cheers! Welcome and congrats on that piece! I haven't seen these in person, but was told that these were a lot nicer in person |
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Post by sleepboy on Nov 24, 2009 17:31:41 GMT -8
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