[RJD Gallery, Sag Harbour, New York - Acrylic on canvas, 91.4 × 91.4 cm]
A Michigan native, Andrea Kowch cites the Midwestern landscape as the prime inspiration for her work. Kowch's charming, haunting scenes have been compared to the work of Andrew Wyeth and Alfred Hitchcock. Like Wyeth, Kowch paints in a realist style, using rural settings as metaphors for her female subjects' internal states. And as in Hitchcock's films, the scenes Kowch depicts are not what they seem; mysterious plots and backstories seem to lurk below the surface. Kowch's fictive world is both domestic and wild: rabbits nest in women's laps, quails sit in their hands, moths land on their blouses. Even when her characters are inside, the natural world intrudes. In The Feast, three women gather around a table; wind blows through the wide-open windows, while a rooster sits beside their plates, its beak reaching for their loaf of bread.
aus Gandalf's Gallery
Nota. - Ja, das kann man malen. Das kann man sich sogar des öftern ansehen. Es eröffnet kein neues Kapitel der Kunst-geschichte, aber wieso sollte ein Maler (oder eine Malerin) so etwas wollen? Sie hat eine Manier, die stellt nicht alles auf den Kopf, was man an Kunst bisher gesehen hat. Aber jedes Bild ist etwas Eigenes. Das genügt, um es zu rechtfertigen.
JE
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