Gabrielle Garland,
He really wants us to think what he's doing is art. —Helen Hudson, Copycat (1995),
2025,
acrylic and oil on canvas,
48 x 48 inches.
Gabrielle Garland's work centers on the idiosyncrasies of domestic architecture - portraits of houses, as it were, both exteriors and interiors, whose features are almost psychotropically amplified, with a skewed perspective that lends them a funhouse, Dr. Caligari-esque feeling. The facades of these structures, however, function as armatures for Garland's virtuosic adventures in paint and graphite. Daring color combinations and nuanced draftsmanship go hand-in-hand with representation in her depictions of suburban and city landscape, the outsized personality of which marks a place where the hyperreal and surreal meet. - Corbett vs. Dempsey
