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Lavishly Dressed Women Equipped with Shovels and Chainsaws Consider the Tools Used for Change
"My work has always been a tribute to all the hard-working women in my life," says Kelly Reemtsen. The artist (previously), who lives and works between Los Angeles and London, has spent the last decade producing a subversive body of work devoted to exploring gender, its constructs, and real-world impacts, from wage gaps to the continual rollback of reproductive rights. Her practice spans printmaking, sculpture, and painting and juxtaposes visual markings of femininity with objects associated with masculinity. Each piece portrays an anonymous woman dressed in…
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Sledgehammers and High Heels Find a Modern Pairing in Kelly Reemtsen’s New Paintings
Painter Kelly Reemtsen (previously) paints images of anonymous women in thick impasto. The pieces juxtapose high fashion with tools and other construction equipment, placing sequenced high heels alongside sledgehammers and hefty axes. The colorfully painted works are Reemtsen's comment on modern femininity. By placing tools in each of her subjects' hands, the LA-based artist showcases that having feminine identification doesn't mean fitting into a predetermined role. Reemtsen is represented by Detroit-based David Klein Gallery and Lyndsey Ingram in London. You can view more of her fashionably dressed subjects on her website.
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Kelly Reemtsen’s Painterly Juxtapositions of Chic Dresses and Power Tools Showcase Modern Femininity
Los Angeles-based painter Kelly Reemtsen's newest works focus on the subject matter of well-dressed women toting household tools that range from mallets to power saws, each held in a causal position that demonstrates a comfortableness with the object in-hand. Each figure is anonymous, the head of the woman not included in the cropped images of dress, heels, and tool. The collective works question what makes the modern woman, flouncy dresses coordinating with more masculine tools to showcase the objects' relatability rather than create a contrast between the woman and her wrenches and shears.…
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