Karin Miller is back with more gorgeous, eccentric and playfully confronting work. In this exhibition she opens a new discussion about sexuality and gender too.
From April 22 at Focus Contemporary’s new gallery at 67 Loop Street, Cape Town, tel: +27 21 4225996
The artist combines traditional artwork skills and photography with modern technology, creating a fusion of past and present, personal and public. She has developed a unique style that exudes a rich eclecticism, playfulness, quirky humour and a post-modern element of neo-baroque. often gathered around a central female figure, each facet of the image is carefully chosen and placed to form unexpected combinations and compositions.
“Sometimes” she explains, “I spend days looking for a haunting face in an old photograph, or a beautiful pattern in an antique print.” Her tactic is to transform the everyday into something captivating. With meticulous attention to detail, she can convey theatrical flamboyance with splashes of parody. Her work often subtly expresses a uniquely South African ambience.
Karin Miller was born in Pretoria in 1957. From an early age, she spent hours drawing, cutting and pasting images to create new impressions and new worlds. She trained as a graphic designer at the Tshwane University of Technology and spent many years working in this field. Karin later studied Fine Arts at Unisa, and eventually moved into the digital art-making field.
Karin Miller’s work speaks of a new South Africa, where the past is not forgotten, but revisited. She creates her very own vision of a new African renaissance.
Karen Miller: I wear my mask for warmth Opens 22 April 2010
Focus Contemporary’s new gallery 67 Loop Street, Cape Town Telephone: +27 21 4225996
Email: [email protected] www.focuscontemporary.co.za
Source: BacktoSA
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