VOLTA NY, New York
8 -11 March 2012
Vane presents Kerstin Drechsel at VOLTA NY art fair, New York, USA.
From cross-dressers to sex club devotees, office workers to nuclear protestors, Kerstin Drechsel captures intimate personal moments, of individuals or sub-culture groups expressing or identifying themselves through their rituals or in the specific environments they create around themselves. Drechsel depicts her subjects’ everyday lives in all their oppressive reality, poignantly underlying their obsessions and aspirations.
Often working on a series of several oil canvases or watercolours at a time, Drechsel’s work draws on images taken from the internet, magazines and books, as well as her own snapshots, presented in a fluid style, transforming them into an archive of constantly recycled dreams and memories. Captured and adopted motifs combine in her paintings with vague promises of desire, fulfilment and adventure. The characters in Drechsel’s paintings – often of ambiguous sexual identity – are not looking for their next kick, but rather devote themselves, self-absorbed, to their passions.
7 West 34th Street
New York
NY 10001
USA
www.voltaartfairs.com/new-york
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