Inside The Racy, Blood-Soaked Drama Of Laura Krifka’s Painted World (NSFW)

February 26, 2015
Los Angeles

Note: This muster contains lots of (painted) nudity. Be warned.

With all a luscious melodrama of a telenovelaLaura Krifka

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Laura Krifka, Judith and Holyfernes, 2014, Oil on canvas, 60″ x 48″

The works on perspective etch instances of punishment, both slight and severe. In “Flying,” a bare immature male floats temporarily above a ominous throng of cacti, while in “Judith and Holyfernes,” a lady giddily slits a bare man’s throat while a third lady crouches nearby, smelling a victim’s hair. Despite a conspicuous indenture spurting from his neck, a new Holofernes’ countenance appears placid, even pleasured. In “The Prick,” an androgynous blonde gazes open-mouthed during a viewer, displaying a needle and blood-soaked finger. Although a golden curls, soothing breasts and willowy physique spirit during femininity, a penis poking out from parsimonious white shorts complicates a frame.

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Laura Krifka Lambs, 2014 Oil on house 48″ x 48″

Although Krifka doesn’t reason behind when it comes to depicting sex, her aesthetic, teetering between exemplary realism and caricature, entirely embraces a extravagance of a theme matter but ever veering into a ironic. Her faces, notwithstanding their relations naturalism, feel some-more like house diversion characters who’ve jumped out of “Guess Who” than genuine tellurian beings. Beautiful Decay dubbed them “renaissance blowup dolls

Aside from a paintings, Krifka also creates small, lumpy churned media sculptures, likewise sauce pithy calm in angel story whimsy. The gloriously rendered, implicitly controversial scenes lead a spectator to take pleasure in a subjects’ pain.

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Laura Krifka The Prick, 2014 Oil on house 40″ x 30″

Thematically, a uncover centers around ideas of moralized assault and a enterprise for retribution. Whether in a Hollywood film or a exemplary painting, party mostly revolves around a aspiration of portion punishment where it’s due. But why? When did we welcome this eminent bloodlust, anticipating in others’ anguish? In a difference of CB1 Gallery, “This synthetic and infamous universe pushes a doubt of when and because we base for punishment, because we crave a inform of drop nonetheless yowl when it touches a possess world.”

“Reap a Whirlwind” runs until Feb 28, 2015 during CB1 Gallery

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