How One Art Show Is Exploring The Complex Relationship Between Thread And Bone

March 23, 2015
Los Angeles

Los Angeles-based artist Kimberly Brooks Thread and Bone

As a show’s pretension suggests, a work on perspective departs from normal understandings of conform (and art, for that matter) as elaborate or quite opulent. Rather, a muster posits a probability that thread, like bone, is something primal, essential, even intrinsic. That, in a grand intrigue of things, panoply final longer than bodies, and maybe for a reason.

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Brooks, also a first editor of a Huffington Post Arts page, conjures in her canvases eerily rendered Rococo memories that never were — a palette is too color-coordinated to have ever occurred in genuine life. “I brew routinely colourful colors to emanate dark tones, afterwards a portrayal shimmers with cold and comfortable areas depending on how a multiple gets imbalanced,

The fictitious chronological renderings serve wealthy visions of banquets, galas and high teas, all while embellished out in a many plush of round gowns. Paint is presented as a many indulgent of fabrics, defying sobriety and included with gigantic room to ripple. Every once and a while, however, colouring drips down a board in a wild, issuing streak, suggestive during once of tattered fabric, or maybe spilling blood noticed by unclouded skin. Despite a dark palette and ethereal theme matter, a works leave a rather sinister aftertaste.

Pale, faceless subjects blur into their vicinity skin-first, like resounding beings whose panoply endure their flesh. In a square “I Was There and It Was Divine,” a billowing dresses compound inextricably with a design and healthy surroundings, as if done of a same things — yes, maybe it’s paint. The environment, both a space and a garb, seems to be eating a inhabitants alive, or during slightest eclipsing them in creation a durability impression.

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The uncover also facilities a large steel structure unresolved overhead, depicting a fundamental camisole with legs poking out. The unusual candelabrum transforms what’s issuing into something inflexible, ironclad. The gossamer mantle has never looked so firm — a contours are spider-like, roughly robotic. In a collages too, we see underwear as exoskeleton, as armor, as a swap garments of a superhero in hiding.

For anyone who has ever felt some-more “naked” in a wig than without. For anyone who has ever felt like Wonder Woman in a corset. For that matter, for anyone who has ever felt detained by a corset. For anyone who has ever remembered someone by their style, not their face. For anyone whose attribute with a panoply they wear is some-more formidable than comfort or even personal style. Check out “Thread and Bone,” that runs until Apr 30, 2015 during a Gateway Gallery of Cooper Design Space in Los Angeles. See a preview next and for some-more of Brooks’ work, check out the progressing talk with her here

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