Ellina Kevorkian
dal 15/7/2005 al 3/9/2005
Segnalato da
15/7/2005
Ellina Kevorkian
Western Project, Culver City
Love Poems For Infidels: New Work. The show addresses issues of identity and geneology, specifically the duality of twins Âa mirroring of beauty, power and femininity - as rogue western outlaws. The artist's paintings are composed after works by J.W. Waterhouse, Sir John Millais, and Artemesia Gentileschi. They are reinvented visions of a new authority.
Love Poems For Infidels: New Work
Western Project is proud to present Ellina Kevorkian's second solo
exhibition. Receiving an MFA from Claremont Graduate School in 2002, she
continues to live and work in Los Angeles painting and shooting videos. Love
Poems For Infidels, addresses issues of identity and geneology, specifically
the duality of twins a mirroring of beauty, power and femininity - as
rogue western outlaws. Kevorkian's paintings are composed after works by
J.W. Waterhouse, Sir John Millais, and Artemesia Gentilleschi. They are
reinvented visions of a new authority, making new choices - women slinging
shot guns in western gowns, garnished in super-bling jewelry  the artist
pictured outside of society as Patti Smith wrote. It is the defiant
stand of the Infidel  questioning the history of representation and
subverting it's supposed truths.
Kevorkian uses numerous contemporary methods to spin her layered tales.
Nearly all the images are staged (from PreÂRaphaelite works) and
photographed, then transferred to canvas and repainted. Like tinted
photographs from the turn of the century, her paintings mimic historic
narratives, inverted with a flourishes of technology and acrylic medium. The
paintings' source of authorship is up for grabs  and can a camera make
paintings? What is Œfilm-like¹? Are these a new kind of readymade?
Kevorkian's presentation of these tales is both subjective and social Â
painting and DVD formats. It is her filmed mini-epic of Infidels that is the
center piece of the exhibition - part 1920's sepia silent film, part
hallucinogenic river of images. Her tale of twin female outlaws cracks open
the polite dialogue of the Goddess' and Photoshops a new set of criteria
for the feminine  just as mythic, but with dustier skirts, and a fierce
subjective voice that revels in contrary acts of determination and faith.
Opening reception, Saturday July 16, 5-8pm
Western Project
3830 Main St. - Culver City