This painting shows Michelle taking a selfie with Beau, apparently enjoying a dreamlike domestic moment on the White House lawn in springtime. Behind the trees - like evil clouds- are some of her ill wishers: Trump, Pence, Mc Connell and Ryan. The loose swirling paint and prettiness enhance the joy of Michelle and her dog as well as the gathering storm of right wing revenge waiting in the wings.
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Jessica’s work represents the figure and its environment often employing animal imagery and allegory in counterpoint to depictions of quotidian, intimate, and fraught human experiences. Her work walks a tightrope between taste and kitsch, pathos and bathos, tragedy and comedy. Frequent themes explored in her work are the interplay of innocence, vulnerability, playfulness, and aggression, our search for connection, and ...
Jessica’s work represents the figure and its environment often employing animal imagery and allegory in counterpoint to depictions of quotidian, intimate, and fraught human experiences. Her work walks a tightrope between taste and kitsch, pathos and bathos, tragedy and comedy. Frequent themes explored in her work are the interplay of innocence, vulnerability, playfulness, and aggression, our search for connection, and our struggle with alienation.
Human instincts and desires fascinate her, particularly the way the human animal tends to distort the perception and projection of desire through layers of social and personal constraint and inhibition. The directness and honesty of animals’ behaviors in her work—sometimes sexual, brutal and violent, sometimes innocent, loving, and playful—brings into relief our convoluted and self-conscious psychological and emotional landscape. Her work is designed to evoke an initial response that is visceral and immediate—attraction, repulsion, recognition.
Jessica Hargreaves grew up in London, England. She has a BA in French language and literature from Liverpool University as well as a BA in Fashion and Textile Design from Central Saint Martins School of Art in London. In 2006 Hargreaves graduated from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in fine art. She now lives and works in New York City.
Courtesy of Auxiliary Projects
Painting
Oil on Wood Panel
20.00 x 24.00 x 1.50 in
50.8 x 61.0 x 3.8 cm
Signed by the artist.
This painting shows Michelle taking a selfie with Beau, apparently enjoying a dreamlike domestic moment on the White House lawn in springtime. Behind the trees - like evil clouds- are some of her ill wishers: Trump, Pence, Mc Connell and Ryan. The loose swirling paint and prettiness enhance the joy of Michelle and her dog as well as the gathering storm of right wing revenge waiting in the wings.
Courtesy of Auxiliary Projects
Jessica’s work represents the figure and its environment often employing animal imagery and allegory in counterpoint to depictions of quotidian, intimate, and fraught human experiences. Her work walks a tightrope between taste and kitsch, pathos and bathos, tragedy and comedy. Frequent themes explored in her work are the interplay of innocence, vulnerability, playfulness, and aggression, our search for connection, and ...
Jessica’s work represents the figure and its environment often employing animal imagery and allegory in counterpoint to depictions of quotidian, intimate, and fraught human experiences. Her work walks a tightrope between taste and kitsch, pathos and bathos, tragedy and comedy. Frequent themes explored in her work are the interplay of innocence, vulnerability, playfulness, and aggression, our search for connection, and our struggle with alienation.
Human instincts and desires fascinate her, particularly the way the human animal tends to distort the perception and projection of desire through layers of social and personal constraint and inhibition. The directness and honesty of animals’ behaviors in her work—sometimes sexual, brutal and violent, sometimes innocent, loving, and playful—brings into relief our convoluted and self-conscious psychological and emotional landscape. Her work is designed to evoke an initial response that is visceral and immediate—attraction, repulsion, recognition.
Jessica Hargreaves grew up in London, England. She has a BA in French language and literature from Liverpool University as well as a BA in Fashion and Textile Design from Central Saint Martins School of Art in London. In 2006 Hargreaves graduated from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in fine art. She now lives and works in New York City.
Courtesy of Auxiliary Projects
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