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"FABIENNE CHRISTENSON: IT S MY PLEASURE "
2000-05-05 until 2000-05-28
ATTIC GALLERY
Newport, KY, USA United States of America

Fabienne Christenson is the featured artist in May with her exhibition of paintings called It s My Pleasure. The collection will feature her most creative works completed within the past year and a few much-commented-on favorites from previous shows. Christenson is one of the few humorous artists practicing in the U.S. today. Her take on art history is a springboard for a great deal of solid mirth, and though they are amusing, her paintings hold together as solid presentations. Her parody/pun painting of Mayonnaise Olympia was featured in February on the huge internetwork MSNBC. Taking off from the master of Impressionism, Ed Manet (known for his love of puns), and picking up steam from Mel Ramos (famous contemporary American figure painter who also did an Olympia parody) Fabienne takes the humorous one step further to the funny zone while managing to make up a very very good copy of the original that outraged Paris salons in the mid 1800‚s.

More recently, Fabienne was inspired in Italy after a face-to-face encounter with a fresco by Masaccio. Wedging herself behind the alter of the Branccasi Chapel in Florence, Fabienne was inches away from a portion called St. Peter Preaching. The self portrait of Masaccio so closely resembled her friend/painter Tom Mitts that she knew she had to paint it in her own style, Waiting for the Sphynx to Speak will be in the exhibition.

The show also includes: Fabienne s signature panoramas of familiar places, unfamiliar places; portraits; and most likely the huge and amazing piece Do You Know What Youre Looking At, where Fabienne explores the influences that funnel into our taste in art by placing evidence behind 36 small doors. Open the doors and think. Its fun and happy self exploration.


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