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Container
Kati Kirsch
- Oil on linen
- 2023
- 42" x 50"
"Container is a myth nestled within a myth nestled within a myth. I see this as a layered painting -
- A figurine
- A pegasus, a mythical creature
- A painting
A figurine and a painting are often both attempts to recreate rather than create. I am thinking about what it means to recreate a depiction of something that was never real to begin with. The pegasus figurine is also trapped within this fleshy, bodily vessel. This whole painting is actually based off of the casting and mold making process (the vessel is painted from a reference of a box I made out of clay to make a mold with), which further mythologizes the art making process."
- Kati Kirsch
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Kati Kirsch
Born in Washington, D.C.; based in Brooklyn, NY
Kati Kirsch produces hypnotic paintings of inanimate objects, organic forms, and abstract shapes. Using a unique soft-focus painterly technique, the artist renders common items and motifs with a certain fuzziness—as if they are slightly shifting or rocking on her canvases. Deliberately smudged marks, layers of blurred imagery, and occasional found objects or mixed materials distinguish her oil paintings that are perplexing and delightful in their strangeness. Zooming in on familiar toys, insects, hearts, flowers, birds, diamonds, and the like, Kirsch focuses the viewer’s eye on oddities that are typically relegated to the periphery of human consciousness. Each work seems to land somewhere between figuration and abstraction; between a 21st-century hazy snapshot and a 20th-century Surrealist painting. The artist turns obscure moments that might otherwise be disquieting into scenes of joy and wonder—demonstrating what profundity can be found within the illogical and intangible.