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Candice Tripp @ Joshua Liner (11/21/09), by JoshuaLinerGallery on Nov 18, 2009 20:42:48 GMT 1, Our next shows opening this Saturday November 21st include Candice Tripp's solo exhibit 'Tiny Drama.' The show features 19 new oil and ink works on canvas. Sample images and press release attached below. Please let us know if you are interested in previewing the work.
Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Tiny Drama, an exhibition of new paintings by the South African artist Candice Tripp.This is Trippโs first solo show with the gallery.
Working in oil and ink on canvas,Tripp creates a precisely realized view of childhood that at first glance seems nostalgic, even precious. Medium-sized and uniformly square, for the most part, the nineteen pictures of Tiny Drama all depict small, finely rendered scenes of child figures in bucolic settings against a white background. What viewers quickly come to understand is that this pictorial technique is entirely ironical, mimicking the cultureโs tendency to minimize the difficulties and dilemmas of childhood. If adulthood represents the successful repression of childhood traumas, Trippโs project is to force the return of the repressed through a suite of clever, fable-like vignettes.
In The Honey Trap, a boy wearing a pig mask is tempted to follow a trail of pink cupcakes toward a bare, menacing tree. In Sometimes the Skull Monkeys Break Out, not-yet-controlled impulses are literalized as a pack of monkeys escaping from the back of a girlโs head. Though wearing adorable outfits, the children all have blue-tinted skin, an arresting clue to their internal states of mind. All hide behind animal masks that when dropped reveal not faces but a whirling miasma of indistinct form and smeared paintโthis action can bring both conflict and relief, as shown in Tiny Drama and The Luxury of Being Left Alone for a Little Bit. By contrast, the one image with no child and a discarded mask, The Last Known Whereabouts of Penny Stone, takes this stand-in for socialization to various unsettling conclusions.
Tripp uses these details to great narrative effect, but a psychological payoff is what she strives for. By isolating the scenes against a white field of negative space, she condenses and intensifies the presence of each tiny drama, much like the goal of โdream workโ in the practice of depth psychology. In referencing the construction of personae through the use of masks and fantasy, the artist suggests that childhood is not so much a time of innocence but rather an intense, often perilous negotiation with the world.
Born in 1985 in Cape Town, South Africa,Candice Tripp currently lives and works in Newcastle, United Kingdom. Solo exhibitions of her work include Home IsWhere The Telly Is, Lazarides 77 Quayside, Newcastle (2008), and Candice Tripp, Electrik Sheep, Newcastle (2007). Selected group exhibitions include The Arrival, Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke, UK (2009);Outsiders, Lazarides Charing Cross, London (2008) Lazarides 77 Quayside opening group show, Newcastle, UK (2007).
The Honey Trap Oil and ink on canvas 2009 40 x 40 in.
The Last Known Whereabouts of Penny Stone Oil and ink on canvas 2009 30 x 30 in.
Death Finds Chloe Oil and ink on canvas 2009 30 x 40 in.
Our next shows opening this Saturday November 21st include Candice Tripp's solo exhibit 'Tiny Drama.' The show features 19 new oil and ink works on canvas. Sample images and press release attached below. Please let us know if you are interested in previewing the work. Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Tiny Drama, an exhibition of new paintings by the South African artist Candice Tripp.This is Trippโs first solo show with the gallery. Working in oil and ink on canvas,Tripp creates a precisely realized view of childhood that at first glance seems nostalgic, even precious. Medium-sized and uniformly square, for the most part, the nineteen pictures of Tiny Drama all depict small, finely rendered scenes of child figures in bucolic settings against a white background. What viewers quickly come to understand is that this pictorial technique is entirely ironical, mimicking the cultureโs tendency to minimize the difficulties and dilemmas of childhood. If adulthood represents the successful repression of childhood traumas, Trippโs project is to force the return of the repressed through a suite of clever, fable-like vignettes. In The Honey Trap, a boy wearing a pig mask is tempted to follow a trail of pink cupcakes toward a bare, menacing tree. In Sometimes the Skull Monkeys Break Out, not-yet-controlled impulses are literalized as a pack of monkeys escaping from the back of a girlโs head. Though wearing adorable outfits, the children all have blue-tinted skin, an arresting clue to their internal states of mind. All hide behind animal masks that when dropped reveal not faces but a whirling miasma of indistinct form and smeared paintโthis action can bring both conflict and relief, as shown in Tiny Drama and The Luxury of Being Left Alone for a Little Bit. By contrast, the one image with no child and a discarded mask, The Last Known Whereabouts of Penny Stone, takes this stand-in for socialization to various unsettling conclusions. Tripp uses these details to great narrative effect, but a psychological payoff is what she strives for. By isolating the scenes against a white field of negative space, she condenses and intensifies the presence of each tiny drama, much like the goal of โdream workโ in the practice of depth psychology. In referencing the construction of personae through the use of masks and fantasy, the artist suggests that childhood is not so much a time of innocence but rather an intense, often perilous negotiation with the world. Born in 1985 in Cape Town, South Africa,Candice Tripp currently lives and works in Newcastle, United Kingdom. Solo exhibitions of her work include Home IsWhere The Telly Is, Lazarides 77 Quayside, Newcastle (2008), and Candice Tripp, Electrik Sheep, Newcastle (2007). Selected group exhibitions include The Arrival, Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke, UK (2009);Outsiders, Lazarides Charing Cross, London (2008) Lazarides 77 Quayside opening group show, Newcastle, UK (2007). The Honey Trap Oil and ink on canvas 2009 40 x 40 in. The Last Known Whereabouts of Penny Stone Oil and ink on canvas 2009 30 x 30 in. Death Finds Chloe Oil and ink on canvas 2009 30 x 40 in.
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Candice Tripp @ Joshua Liner (11/21/09), by walters on Nov 18, 2009 21:58:33 GMT 1, gutted im gonna miss this.ive never seen her work up close.
gutted im gonna miss this.ive never seen her work up close.
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Candice Tripp @ Joshua Liner (11/21/09), by Martin DK on Nov 18, 2009 23:04:48 GMT 1, Looks nice - always liked Candice Tripp's work. Best of luck with the show!
Looks nice - always liked Candice Tripp's work. Best of luck with the show!
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Candice Tripp @ Joshua Liner (11/21/09), by monkeyart on Nov 18, 2009 23:47:30 GMT 1, Love it!!
Love it!!
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Candice Tripp @ Joshua Liner (11/21/09), by spenie1975 on Nov 19, 2009 0:00:16 GMT 1, Looks great, love the fact that the full canvas is not used.
Looks great, love the fact that the full canvas is not used.
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