In this new body of work, Fiona Rae employs a battery of painterly marks and graphic signs that jostle for space on the fictive plane of painting. Rae revels in juxtaposing elements gleaned from a raid on art history's store cupboard: layering Abstract Expressionism, Tachism and Minimalism alongside contemporary global references from graphic design and popular culture.The mood is ambiguous - flowers, toys and cartoon characters initially suggest a sweet, almost cloying world, yet Rae's dark and brooding palette combined ...
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In this new body of work, Fiona Rae employs a battery of painterly marks and graphic signs that jostle for space on the fictive plane of painting. Rae revels in juxtaposing elements gleaned from a raid on art history's store cupboard: layering Abstract Expressionism, Tachism and Minimalism alongside contemporary global references from graphic design and popular culture.The mood is ambiguous - flowers, toys and cartoon characters initially suggest a sweet, almost cloying world, yet Rae's dark and brooding palette combined with virtuoso washes and veils of paint suggest dissolution and decay - all is not well in this candied, melting world. These new paintings reveal Rae's continued fascination with the graphic tropes of the Far East: a dragon's scales, exotic feathers and flowers are all rendered with the humorous insouciance of Hokusai crossed with Asterix.
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Add this copy of Fiona Rae to cart. $24.50, like new condition, Sold by Kulturas books west rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Third Eye Centre.
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Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Softcover in decorative dust jacket. First edition. One of 500 copies, Catalogue published to accompany a 1990 exhibition of Fiona Rae's paintings in Glasgow at the Third Eye Centre. No text. Book is crisp and clean. Dust jacket has a narrow rim of sunning at spine. All plates in black and white. 4" x 6". Unpaginated.
Add this copy of Fiona Rae ( Exhibition 18 Mar-23 April, 2011 ) to cart. $56.82, like new condition, Sold by Colin Martin Art Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2011 by Buchmann Galerie Berlin.
Add this copy of Fiona Rae ( Exhibition 23 May-28 June, 2008 ) Signed to cart. $76.89, like new condition, Sold by Colin Martin Art Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2008 by Timothy Taylor Gallery.
