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The paper drawings in this show are both, if you look closely you’ll see that all four of the compositions on the canvases exist as standalone drawings on the other side of the room as well, plus a handful of other drawings that are just their own thing. I make lots of standalone works on paper that are meant to be seen on their own, but I also make studies for my larger paintings on paper too. The latter has been my comfort zone for years, I learned to draw and paint on a small scale working on paper and it’s still something I love, it’s so special to me. The work I made for this show basically falls into two categories, these larger works on canvas and then smaller works on paper.
Read our exclusive interview below and let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.Ĭongratulations on your solo show at All City Space! Tell us about the works in the presentation. The works take viewers on a surrealistic exploration of womanhood that recall the artist’s real life experiences that are indicated gesturally.įor our latest HypeArt Visits, we connected with Heather in her Brooklyn studio to discuss her latest works, creative upbringing, and of course, sex. “At a certain point in my personal life I became interested in working through trauma, not ruminating on it,” she says.” The artist recently held a solo show at Brooklyn’s All City Space called ‘BUTTERFLY KISSES.’ Mythical depictions of female characters, akin to goddesses, in her signature motifs are highlighted in numerous large-scale paintings that show women commingling with elements of nature and taming its forces. Ripped from vintage porn magazines, her Adderall-induced zine scenes highlighted the unabashed forms of sex with abandon.Īs Heather got older, she decided to focus on the nuances of sex and celebrate the female form through a more refined, ambiguous approach.
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Her erotic manga scribblings transitioned into more hardcore scenarios of subjects “fucking and crying” in a series of monochromatic zines called ‘Sad Sex’ that the artist produced during her “super angsty” teenage years. “There is a lot about it that is exaggerated versions of traditionally sexualized female body parts, like long legs and big eyes, but there is also a bunch of stuff that’s almost surrealistic about them, the bodies are fairly abstracted, and that’s something I like to play with now too,” she says. Raised in Queens, NY, Benjamin recounts tracing the exaggerated feminine images of Sailor Moon characters at her grandma’s house when she was a child. The iconography of sex are also present among contemporary works especially in the highly intricate paintings and illustrations of Brooklyn-based artist, Heather Benjamin. Whether it’s an octopus embracing a nude woman in Hokusai’s piece or Titian’s Venus which Mark Twain once called “the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses” - the imagery in these works offer no sense of ambiguity regarding their eroticism.
It does not store any personal data.From Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” to Katsushika Hokusai’s “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife” as well as Paul Cezanne’s “Seven Bathers,” sexual references in classic works abound. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.
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