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Polly Shindler
Gin Game in Yellow Room - Contemporary Dining Interior Card Game Plants, 2023

2023

About the Item

In this contemporary interior painting in acrylic on canvas, a round wooden table is surrounded by chairs in the center of a yellow dining room. A deck of cards is spread out on the table, arranged and ready for a game of gin rummy. Two lush, green, leafy plants hang from the ceiling on either side of the room, while a window between the plants shows the darkness of the night outside, a stark contrast to the cheerful, bright yellow room. In her work, Polly Shindler is always thinking about the psychology of a place. Ideas born from an investigation of solitude and retreat over time became an investigation into the lives and homes of others. Curiosity about the arrangement of a place itself raises questions: how are households organized, who designed the space, how are personal effects displayed, what is on the coffee table, and what is hidden away? Shindler appreciates the specificity of the choices. The presentation of a home expresses how its inhabitants interact with and see the world. Shindler’s paintings are of places, not people. By not depicting the figure in her work she conveys a deliberate neutrality creating simultaneously a void and a fullness, paintings full of the suggestion with no one in them. Polly Shindler’s work has been shown widely in the United States and in London and Madrid. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, and others. Her work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, Forbes, Art New England, and New York Arts Magazine to name a few. Shindler earned her MFA at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, and a BA in History at University of Massachusetts.
  • Creator:
    Polly Shindler (1977, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2023
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Kent, CT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU19715637652

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