Hashimoto Contemporary is delighted to present Moist Desire, a solo exhibition by Toronto-dependent artist Megan Ellen MacDonald. The exhibition will be MacDonald’s next solo presentation at Hashimoto Modern, and debut solo exhibition in New York Metropolis.
Using 3D computer software and virtual reality to make intricate scenes, the artist reinterprets these compositions through traditional oil painting strategies knowledgeable by historical nonetheless everyday living portray of the Dutch Golden Period. Continuing the exploration of contrasting themes of objectification and ability, MacDonald expands on how these themes relate to the femme encounter by way of coded iconography.
For Soaked Desire, the artist depicts distorted, opulent tableaus of all-natural elements loaded with flowers, skulls and fruit, which allude to the commodification and seduction in just an elaborate inner earth 1 that clumsily mimics components of ours but maintains its individual unique aesthetic. Shiny, overly ripe fruits and flowers dangle from fragile stems, drooping intensely from the body weight. Shucked oysters tantalizingly phone to the viewer, keeping a shimmering pearl at it is heart. MacDonald’s saturated palette is slick and comprehensive of shades of pink, what is deemed to be a traditionally femme shade.
About the most current overall body of get the job done, the artist states, “each work serves as a memento mori and like letter to the complexities of nature that we acquire for granted. Though the do the job explores female identification and the dichotomy of gender and ability, the narratives in the exhibition contain references to the fragility and magnificence of the all-natural globe.”
Seductive nevertheless unnerving in their surreal nature, the artist paints scenes which allude to the effect of human intervention with character, and our inclination to change serious entire world experiences with extra curated, commodified existences.