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Kika Karadi
Black Cat
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Kika Karadi creates each of her paintings while watching a noir movie (in this case, The Black Cat (1934)). The rapidity of each session, painted to coincide with the exact running time of the selected title, is belied by the large scale and intricate textures of the surface. We love the brutalist art deco feel of this work; it's very 1930's, in keeping with the film that inspired the piece. By compressing the entire duration and contents of a movie into a painting, Karadi has distilled time itself into a haunting, spectral image.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, Kika Karadi arrived to New York at the age of 11. The following year, she and her mother moved to Miami where the young Karadi attended the New World School of the Arts. Later, while studying at the Maryland Institute College of Art, she became the youngest recipient of the Morris Louis Grant for Painting, and in 1997, she received her B.F.A. Since 2005, Karadi has lived and worked in New York City, showing in galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe, including the Expanded Painting Section of Prague Biennale, and the 51st Venice Biennale, at the Museo Storico Navale.

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