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OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, January 24, 7-11pm
Trapper Keeper features four female artists creating improvised, abstract compositions using a variety of materials. Latex, vinyl, dye, glitter and makeup are used alongside paint to create works which are at times overindulgent or diaristic. The bright, glittery palette resembles the aesthetic of Trapper KeepersTM and Lisa FrankTM merchandise popular with adolescent girls in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Illustrative dolphins and puppies are eschewed for voluptuous forms, swaths of color, and gestural marks which suggest an intuitive decision-making process, combining painterly sophistication with the impulsive but orderly doodles found in bored teens’ notebooks. Lana Williams' aggressive mark-making, executed in paint, colored smoke bombs, and bleach, spill off the edges of her canvas and onto the wall. Mie Hørlyk Mogensen's vinyl works, either stretched to a rectilinear frame or tacked directly to the wall, reference both minimalist painting and crude bodily shapes, all in a material resembling bound journal covers. Jane Kim's assemblage combines stickers, sponges, and plastic fruit used interchangeably with globs and smears of paint. Mia Christopher's small, gestural paintings, composed in both artist paints and cosmetic products in 2-page spreads of Moleskine notebooks, have been scanned in high resolution and made into large format prints.