Alexis Kandra

Regal Cat

2019

Ice Cat, oil paint, holographic foil, domestic cat, figurative, animal, grid

Traveling Triceratops, oil paint, holographic foil, dinosaur, figurative, animal, grid

Panther Hollow, oil, blue and gold metal foil, big cat, figurative, animal, grid

Mountain Lion, oil, holographic foil, big cat, figurative, animal

"Fall Sonata I & II" is a mixed media encaustic painting on panel by Diana Majumdar. The painting depicts two song sparrow birds perched amongst branche...

"Pirouette" is a mixed media encaustic painting on linen by Diana Majumdar. The painting depicts seven Cedar Waxwing birds perched amongst branches with ...

A woman reclines in a disheveled bedroom, the folds in her sweatshirt are delicately rendered by the texture of the paint. She stares at the window, where a black cat stands on the sill, looking back at her. The open window reveals a hint of a snowy cityscape. --- Building on her previous show, Main Squeeze, which featured bodies pressing through the grid of lawn chairs, in “That Feeling When,” Aldrich expands the excess of materials to large figure paintings and small, overfilled sculptures. Aldrich uses thick materials that protrude from the surface, reminding the viewer that the paintings are not only physical objects in themselves, but also create the illusion of the picture. The work employs a risky excess of material that borders on uncontrollable; becoming metaphoric for barely controlled femininity, the attraction and repulsion of materialism, and the body pressing against constraints. The figures in the paintings are seen from behind or have turned away. The viewer is put in a place of questioning whether they are a voyeur or a co-viewer with the figure of something deeper in the picture plane. The full body paintings of young women based on Nancy Drew...

This is a painting of an abstracted and re-imagined playing card with birds and textures writing. This card in particular is the 2 of clubs. The painting is mixed media on clayboard,...