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"Creatures of Saintly Disguise" by FIRE and ICING Cakes, Cookies, Confections
Varnish Fine Art Gallery
JennyBird Alcantara solo exhibit
"Creatures of Saintly Disguise"
June 9th, 2012
The world of pop-surrealism is abundant with oddly-shaped creatures, otherwordly landscapes, unexplained objects and abstract, narrative images. True to this is the flora and fauna captured in JennyBird Alcantara's artwork, as well as the vulnerable, doughy-eyed damsels and creatures that inhabit her paintings. Here, both animal and human come together, either by choice or by nature. Conjoined at the head or the hip, animal and damsel become one, and the duality of human fragility and animalistic tendency coincide.
At this same intersection are the fantastical curiosities created only in the deepest, darkest of dreams. Two one-eyed, deer-hoofed beauties, taken from the painting "Daughter of Icarus", sit atop the ledge of a cake in gentle repose, gazing at their audience with suspicion and vulnerability, while above them two half-human bees ("Don't Stir the Hive") whirl about in contention for the other's honey. At the healm is the Queen of the Riddle Realms, gracefully watching from above in her pretty blue dress, hand-in-hoof, peering out at us through her unimaginable tentacled head.
Saints or not, these figures are certainly "Creatures of Saintly Disguise", and such narratives are best dreamed up by the artist herself. Re-imagining it all in sugar is best left to the kitchens of FIREandICING.com.
Wishing you the darkest, twisted and most surrealistic of sugary dreams,
F&I
Artist: JennyBird Alcantara
Web: www.jennybirdart.com
Fiscal Sponsor: Varnish Fine Art Gallery
Cake and Sugar Art: www.FIREandICING.com
Hi Fructose Magazine Article:
hifructose.com/2012/06/12/jennybird-alcantaras-creatures-...
"Creatures of Saintly Disguise" by FIRE and ICING Cakes, Cookies, Confections
Varnish Fine Art Gallery
JennyBird Alcantara solo exhibit
"Creatures of Saintly Disguise"
June 9th, 2012
The world of pop-surrealism is abundant with oddly-shaped creatures, otherwordly landscapes, unexplained objects and abstract, narrative images. True to this is the flora and fauna captured in JennyBird Alcantara's artwork, as well as the vulnerable, doughy-eyed damsels and creatures that inhabit her paintings. Here, both animal and human come together, either by choice or by nature. Conjoined at the head or the hip, animal and damsel become one, and the duality of human fragility and animalistic tendency coincide.
At this same intersection are the fantastical curiosities created only in the deepest, darkest of dreams. Two one-eyed, deer-hoofed beauties, taken from the painting "Daughter of Icarus", sit atop the ledge of a cake in gentle repose, gazing at their audience with suspicion and vulnerability, while above them two half-human bees ("Don't Stir the Hive") whirl about in contention for the other's honey. At the healm is the Queen of the Riddle Realms, gracefully watching from above in her pretty blue dress, hand-in-hoof, peering out at us through her unimaginable tentacled head.
Saints or not, these figures are certainly "Creatures of Saintly Disguise", and such narratives are best dreamed up by the artist herself. Re-imagining it all in sugar is best left to the kitchens of FIREandICING.com.
Wishing you the darkest, twisted and most surrealistic of sugary dreams,
F&I
Artist: JennyBird Alcantara
Web: www.jennybirdart.com
Fiscal Sponsor: Varnish Fine Art Gallery
Cake and Sugar Art: www.FIREandICING.com
Hi Fructose Magazine Article:
hifructose.com/2012/06/12/jennybird-alcantaras-creatures-...