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Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful (A parody on life and what we admire)
All Imagery on this website is copyrighted by Judith Kindler. All Rights Reserved
We have all looked at art, at popular icons or concepts of beauty and have questioned why and how we have come to select certain subjects as admirable, beautiful, desirable, etc. Judith Kindler takes on this question in this body of work “Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful.”
Playing with and referencing our culture, art and its icons, the artist brings new meanings through humor, re-contextualizing, and satire.The mixed media work plays with the psychological overtones of the imagery typical of the artist’s oeuvre.
This oeuvre was described in 2004 by Bellevue Arts Museum ’s Curator, Stefano Catalani, in “Defining Truth/ Judith Kindler ” as follows: “The composition of the photographs is minimal, reduced to standing girls and young women in white delicate clothing, often against an indefinite and blurred background. The spatial perception here is blind, almost dimensionless, except for the human figure. The white atmosphere is rarified, suspended, though charged at times with symptoms of tension: A sudden gesture of embrace, eye contact with the viewer, lifted hands, or eyes cast down. . . Judith Kindler builds up the narrative and iconographic space . . . a repertoire of symbols and seminal ideas projected out for readers able to decipher.”
"Confused and Dazed I - V"
Mixed Media: Encaustic, Oils, Paper on Panel
36" X 30" each panel
2009
"Confused and Dazed I"
Mixed Media: Encaustic, Oils, Paper on Panel
36" X 30"
2009
"Confused and Dazed II"
Mixed Media: Encaustic, Oils, Paper on Panel
36" X 30"
2009
"Confused and Dazed III"
Mixed Media: Encaustic, Oils, Paper on Panel
36" X 30"
2009
"Confused and Dazed IV"
Mixed Media: Encaustic, Oils, Paper on Panel
36" X 30"
2009
"Confused and Dazed V"
Mixed Media: Encaustic, Oils, Paper on Panel
36" X 30"
2009
"Wabbits"
Mixed Media: Encaustic, Resin, wire, cloth, acrylics on Panels
10" X 10" X variable depth each - 18 panels
2009
"Conflicted"
Mixed Media: Encaustic, Oils, Paper on Panel
60" X 36"
2009
"Distraction"
Mixed Media: Encaustic, Oils, Paper on Panel
36" X 48"
2009
"Wabbits II "
Mixed Media: Encaustic, Resin, wire, cloth, acrylics on Panels
10" X 10" X variable depth each - 7 panels
2009 |
