DIMIN is proud to current Sitting Geese, a provocative showcase of the latest work from Brooklyn-based artist Elena Redmond. Via her distinctive method to portraiture, Redmond continues a voyeuristic, jewel-toned journey via her private relationship with privateness, vulnerability and energy. The work in Sitting Geese additional assessments the tensions between compliance and revolt, visibility and publicity, energy and objectification — all via the lens of the feminine kind, refracted throughout historical past, literature, and the sharp mild of a New York condominium window. Drawing from the idiom, Sitting Geese investigates what it means to be on show, “a susceptible goal ready within the shade”. On this work, figures are poised not merely as topics, however as websites of projection and psychological negotiation. With references starting from Mannerist portray to Surrealism, Redmond samples artwork historical past in quiet commentary on how femininity is traditionally carried out, perceived, and painted.
