Hi all! So happy to repost this from @deannaevansprojects where you can collect collages from my The World Without Us series, and some of my other fav artists too! 💕 Posted @withregram • @deannaevansprojects This week from our flat file — we are highlighting the work of @kmainenti! - All flat file works are $200 and available for direct purchase on our website! - Karen Mainenti has had solo exhibitions of her work at the 2019 SPRING/BREAK Art Show, The Bard Graduate Center Library, Ground Floor Gallery, The Society for Domestic Museology and Chashama. Select group exhibitions include the Untitled Space, DUMBO Arts Festival, La Bodega Gallery, Trestle Gallery, Guest Spot @ The Reinstitute in Baltimore and the Cornell Museum of Art in Delray Beach, Florida. Her artwork has received coverage in ARTnews, Artnet News, Hyperallergic, Gothamist, Brooklyn Magazine, Gallery Gurls and The Believer Magazine, among others. In 2018 she was an Artist-in-Residence at the Bard Graduate Center Library. Mainenti also serves on the board of directors for Arts Gowanus. - This collection of collages, “The World Without Us,” reconsiders ordinary objects as relics of humanity’s time on Earth. Mainenti envisions the planet after our extinction, with animals appearing to contemplate inscrutable consumer products left behind by the human race. Against plush matte backgrounds of pulp-dyed art paper, she collages images of animals carefully excised from vintage wildlife magazines alongside objects from classic advertisements from the mid-twentieth century. Each vignette is unified by a single hue, ranging from pastels to earth tones, reflective of the colors that were once popular in fashion trends and evocative of gender conventions. Her use of source imagery from an earlier era which ushered in an explosion of purchasing power and mass production in the U.S. provides perspective on contemporary life. - #flatfilefriday #deannaevansprojects #karenmainenti #flatfile #depflatfile #workonpaper #paintingonpaper #affordableart #emergingartist (at Deanna Evans Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbQ-obdFqGb/?utm_medium=tumblr
