Lizard Figurative Photography

Josephine Baker, 2018 by Paloma Castello Digital photographs on glossy pearlescent paper 47.2 x 33 inches Edition 1 /3 + 1AP unframed 2018 _______________________ Paloma Castello bo...

Molly’s current photographic work explores themes of memory, the passage of time, a sense of place, and the natural world, using both painting and photography. Her unique silver gela...

Edition of 15 Signed, titled, numbered and print type in pencil on print verso by David Johndrow Series: Terrestrials Platinum Palladium print While integrating photography and his ...

`Residence of Impermanence` 2017-2019 My performance series, `Residence of Impermanence`, explores our relationship to animals, fire and Nature. Through the element of fire, I hav...

Text by Nancy Webb It’s Saturday night and Karine Payette is in her studio. We meander into a conversation about the dog she used to have and her soft spot for German shepherds, an intensely obedient and loyal breed in a deceivingly wolf-like package. Payette’s most recent series of photographs, sculptures and video work seem to speak directly to this preoccupation with the multifaceted nature of human-animal relationships—the dialogues of control, intimacy, violence and domestication that subtly take place on an interspecies level. Her workspace is part laboratory, part prop closet—a bowl of fur sits not far from her computer. Somehow in this bright, open, chemical-clean scented room, Payette conjures wildness. We are taken to a strange place, the borderlands of interspecies mingling. At one extreme of the animal-human dynamics scale is the stalwart compliance of a professionally trained German shepherd who responds to commands with robotic precision. Here, power is comfortably held by an off-screen voice, animality pacified by a set of linguistic prompts. At the other end of the scale is a sculpture of a human figure clad in red, sharing a languorous kiss with a wolf. The story of Little Red Riding Hood is immediately called to mind, except that here our hooded protagonist seems to have bailed on grandmother’s orders, instead opting for a forest floor make-out with her canine stalker. This taboo mise-en-scène is a brazen inquiry into the boundaries we maintain with our animal counterparts. Its scale and three-dimensionality contribute to a feeling of immersion that the artist has been courting with her work for the past several years. It feels as though you’ve just walked in on something: you are implicated and your discomfort is like an invisible mist that coats these inanimate beings. Elsewhere in Payette’s suite of anthropomorphic works, the demarcation between species grows even fainter. A photographic series depicts the slow encroachment of fur, scales and feathers on human skin—a striking process of contamination facilitated by touch. The fusion of flesh, charcoal cat fur and a pale silky dress...

A bunch of elephants playing in the mud, photographed by Joachim Schmeisser in 2022. All prints are limited edition. Available in multiple sizes. High-end framing on request. All p...

Iconic Gator skin Birkin bag being held by a hand with red nail polish, fighting with a gator over the bag, photographed by Tyler Shields in 2021. All prints are limited edition. A...