In the excessive oil panels, Chloe West calls magical realism in the American West – a huge

It is located on the mountains, desert plains, and the blue sky that one finds at high altitudes, Chloe WestThe amazing oily paintings integrate the Dutch golden age icons with both legends and daily decorations of the American West.

West was born and brought up in Wyoming, where peaks and pastures still affect her excessive pictorial works. In its current individual exhibition, Serendipity games in HarperThe artist relies on European traditions and traditions of life in a series of self -images and paintings that represent stereotypes in the West as a mint by Machismo.

For example, the artist depicts a direct confrontation with the viewer, sitting next to a mountain lion skull on a table covered with heavenly tissues. The plate raises Salomon Koninkk “Philosopher(1635) It is working by other artists in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who often depict chemists and scientists in their studies accompanied by skulls, devices and documents.

The West spoils our understanding of the culture of cowboy as mostly male, and heads to its body with bones, small weapons and the backgrounds of fabric that creates tension between life, death, folklore, daily life, Jerusalem and pens. The bones of animals, thorns and knives are a gesture to Mymento Mori, Remembering the lack of stability of life, with a summons of the supernatural and the feeling of periodic time. Doubles the deep sun, dark darkness, the bright sun reveals everything.

Filming itself in Western Wear, and linking Western to the continuity of the scene, its customs and novels, while looking at the way that such as European situations and actions such as A clear fate Our understanding of the region. The artist clicks to the legend, history and magic realism to put forward the differences between the past and the contemporary experience. “In the end, all the time Serendipity gamesWest faces ideal for the border championship, dismantling its prejudices and expanding it on a legacy that left behind. “

Serendipity games It opens today and lasts until May 10 in New York City. Find more on the artist Website and Instagram.