EXHIBITIONS

Nov 13th - Dec 20th

In a recent departure from the diminutive scale and imagery of female adolescents through which she perfected her painting skill, Amanda Besl launches her latest and most impressive body of work to date. Besl’s meticulous still lifes in oil paint are constructed with imagery of tangles of human hair interacting with inanimate Baroque or kitsch objects and deftly explore issues of identity, psychology, and history. To create her vivid imagery, Besl finds inspiration in late Rococo traditions ala Fragonard, Narnia, Victorian eccentricity- hair styles and flower naming, Greek mythology, and Miss Havisham, to name a few. The result is an intricate visual and psychological landscape. Besl’s paintings are both stunning aesthetic depictions and deeper psychological constructs—they only fully reveal themselves after contemplation at length.