Dreams Come True in Malibu, 2011 - Alexa Gerrity
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About Dreams Come True in Malibu
Dreams Come True in Malibu is part of Gerrity's series The Tiger Bride. Referencing Rococo painters of the 18th century who, as the artist notes, "depicted subject matter of exuberance, hedonism, and eroticism via female representation," Gerrity highlights the ...Read More
Dreams Come True in Malibu is part of Gerrity's series The Tiger Bride. Referencing Rococo painters of the 18th century who, as the artist notes, "depicted subject matter of exuberance, hedonism, and eroticism via female representation," Gerrity highlights the obsession with surface and appearance that characterizes Los Angeles—what she describes as "a city of illusions, a city of seeming, where its all about the gaze, the image, looking, and being looked at."
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About Alexa Gerrity
The multimedia artist Alexa Gerrity employs strategies from psychology, acting, art history, and other fields to investigate the nature of identity, particularly female identity. Always ...Read More
The multimedia artist Alexa Gerrity employs strategies from psychology, acting, art history, and other fields to investigate the nature of identity, particularly female identity. Always using body doubles to portray herself in her video pieces, the artist has dug deep into the vanity and illusion involved in creating a persona, once using a professional casting call in Los Angeles to screen actresses who look like her as a reflexive commentary on her own work.
Further pursuing this theme of mirroring, Gerrity has also drawn on the psychological phenomenon known as the "Venus Effect," which describes the belief most viewers have that the goddesses in famous Venus-and-mirror paintings—the most celebrated being Velazquez's Rokeby Venus—when in fact the angle of the mirror means the deity is actually peering at the viewer. The artist's work has been exhibited in many gallery shows and art fairs.
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Further pursuing this theme of mirroring, Gerrity has also drawn on the psychological phenomenon known as the "Venus Effect," which describes the belief most viewers have that the goddesses in famous Venus-and-mirror paintings—the most celebrated being Velazquez's Rokeby Venus—when in fact the angle of the mirror means the deity is actually peering at the viewer. The artist's work has been exhibited in many gallery shows and art fairs.
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