Jennifer Vanderpool
dal 15/9/2006 al 13/10/2006
Segnalato da
15/9/2006
Jennifer Vanderpool
Bandini Art, Culver City
This is women’s work, the crafting of sweet, artificial confections that both entice and corrupt. In Bemused Vanderpool has conjured housewife heaven, her molded delicacies as indestructible as a Twinkie. Yet all the while, the accompanying video plays scenes of escape and exploration.
Bemused
Shiny, beady, plastic, creamy, toothsome, trippy, Jennifer Vanderpool’s new installation, which opens at Bandini Art on September 16, is a world of sensory overload, where the viewer wanders between dayglo Astroturf stalactites and pastel bubblewrap flowers. Almost-edible resin desserts erupt from the pebbles and sand of the natural world, carried forward by mountains of whipped plaster cream.
This is women’s work, the crafting of sweet, artificial confections that both entice and corrupt. In Bemused Vanderpool has conjured housewife heaven, her molded delicacies as indestructible as a Twinkie. Yet all the while, the accompanying video plays scenes of escape and exploration.
Vanderpool is lauded in Europe for her gleeful embrace of the domestic goddess, to whose realm she brings the rigor of art history and discipline of formal sculptural concerns. Bemused contrasts shape and texture, color and spatial relations with a surety that springs from a thorough understanding of art theory.
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 16, 6pm - 8pm
Bandini Art
2635 S. Fairfax Avenue - Culver City
Open Tuesday thru Saturday, 11am - 5pm