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Okay, admittedly, when I first saw the title of Natalia Fabia's show, "Hooker DreamEscape," I kinda rolled my eyes. But then I read the description, and I fell in love with the concept just a little bit.
"...Fabia’s second solo show at the Gallery continues her tales of
seduction by revealing the forbidden desires and secret fantasies of her modern-day belle de jours. Providing tongue-in-cheek “dream-escapes” with jewel-toned forests and candy-colored landscapes, the artist creates the ideal environment for her bold seductresses to indulge themselves in life’s little pleasures. As one siren is discovered capriciously binging on pizza in a child’s room, another quietly relaxes alone in a pool at midnight, enjoying a cigarette. Fabia’s unique style evolves for “Hooker DreamEscape”, capturing a more heightened realism in this collection of oil-on-panel works, topped off, as always, by the artist’s signature glitter veneer. The exhibition will also feature a limited edition of fifteen Lucite chandeliers, each baroque design elegantly displaying custom charms and hand-signed and numbered by the artist."
It sounds like a kind of campy and kind of touching examination of a certain type of lifestyle--the paintings I've seen from the show are leering, in a way, and definitely voyeuristic, but also beautiful and revealing. The artist acknowledges the humanity of her subjects in a way I feel a lot of art exploring similar topics does not. Like in the painting above, the setting and the model are gorgeous, but the green, cadaverous lighting covering everything just makes me think of the decay and impermanence of it all. And I like the recognition of the juxtaposition.
Plus, I'm extremely curious about the Lucite chandeliers.
This show runs from February 21 through March 14 at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City.
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