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Kira Maria Shewfelt
The Yearlings , 2024年4月20日 - 5月24日

Kira Maria Shewfelt: The Yearlings

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作品
  • Lohengrin Supernova, 2023

    Lohengrin Supernova, 2023

     

  • Coup de grâce (After Conchita Cintrón), 2023
    Coup de grâce (After Conchita Cintrón), 2023
  • Team Building (After Alison Hargreaves on Eiger), 2022-24
    Team Building (After Alison Hargreaves on Eiger), 2022-24
  • Nasturtium Dad Reach, 2023
    Nasturtium Dad Reach, 2023
  • The Visitation, 2023-24
    The Visitation, 2023-24
  • Kitchen Cat Draw, 2023
    Kitchen Cat Draw, 2023
  • Xmas Alligator, 2023
    Xmas Alligator, 2023
  • Night Touch (Your hand in mine), 2023

    Night Touch (Your hand in mine), 2023

     

  • The Stable (Ocean & Harley in Wawona), 2023-24

    The Stable (Ocean & Harley in Wawona), 2023-24

     

  • Prayer Touch (Memory of a previous butterfly life), 2023
    Prayer Touch (Memory of a previous butterfly life), 2023
  • Haircut Kiss, 2023-24

    Haircut Kiss, 2023-24

     

  • Baptism, 2023

    Baptism, 2023

     

  • The Raft, 2023

    The Raft, 2023

     

  • The Journey (Through Fields of Joy), 2023-24
    The Journey (Through Fields of Joy), 2023-24
  • The Sanctuary, 2023-24

    The Sanctuary, 2023-24

     

  • Bridalveil Falls, 2023-24

    Bridalveil Falls, 2023-24

新闻稿

Presented by Make Room, The Yearlings by Kira Maria Shewfelt is a solo exhibition devoted to moments of becoming. 


In each painting, figures of lovers and children, horses and butterflies alike, convene, sharing touch or experience in scenes the artist describes as moments of “high transference and action”—  and so, touch is a relational reminder, a promise that we are bound together, interconnected through our relationships, with potential for becoming more. 


Kira Maria’s paintings dispense with artifice and caring too much about the wrong things. Intimacy is a holding, an embrace, a kiss, a touch, but it is also the incremental appearance and shedding of expectations— there is permission to be observed as we really are and to want for more. Intimacy, care, and affection verge close to the goals of art, a meditation on what intuitively moves us. Intimacy is truthful— it is the personal made sublime, an ode to transformative experiences.


Gestures and marks are applied so honestly that parts of paintings are rendered nearly translucent. Thin washes of oil paint dapple across a worked and cared for surface and the effect of accumulated layering creates new spaces of depth and richness. Made bold and tender, swiftly with action as with repose, these canvases carry marks of an extended process, holding intuitive making as dearly as the finish. 


The artist’s scenes of nature allude to the efforts of 19th century Romanticism, expanding themes of the individual’s relationship with awe and grandeur to encompass the personal and domestic. Amid paintings of home, portraits of friends and lovers, and natural wonders, we experience splendor through color and gestural impressions. These artworks assign significance to the sensual, affective, and deeply connected, a testament to holding close spectacular moments, wherever we may find them. 


Drawing imagery from an expansive archive, the artist’s references span cultural figures like the female matador Conchita Cintrón to autobiographical experiences, such as trips to Lake Tota in Colombia and horseback rides in December at the Michoacán butterfly sanctuary in Mexico. Dashes of color layered atop an image of lovers kissing call to mind visible supernovas, which Kira Maria has expressed as fascination with “the idea that stars are born and also die in moments of particulate friction”. For the artist, the personal can be a microcosm for the universal and understanding infinity can be as easy or challenging as knowing ourselves and relating to one another. Each point of contact imagines a shared reality.


Romantic hues imbue the natural world with perceptual wonder. The corporeal body is flexible, elastic, strong, and tender.  If color, light, the body, and touch are all mutable, so are the edges of the memory, dream, or images depicted. Sometimes in life, the more you wish for something, the more it becomes true, and so, with layered accumulations and veils of romantic color, the artist’s painterly incantations form visual continuities, conjuring the possibility of a synchronized, intimate, and dream-like world. 


The subconscious, now conscious, is the threshold where our dreams and reality collide and the artist effortlessly lets these boundaries blur. Each image is on the cusp of becoming. 


I encourage you, the viewer, to look long and longingly at Kira Maria’s paintings, not just at the surface, but at what glows in deep, romantic hues, shining from underneath.


-Candice C. Chu
Artist, writer, and contributing art editor

新闻
  • Emerging Painter Kira Maria Shewfelt Transforms Moments of Passion into Surreal Canvases

    Emerging Painter Kira Maria Shewfelt Transforms Moments of Passion into Surreal Canvases

    Kira Maria Shewfelt featured in Artsy 2024年4月16日
    When Los Angeles–based artist Kira Maria Shewfelt began painting kisses, she encountered a pro...
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  • A Terrific Conversation with Kira Maria Shewfelt

    A Terrific Conversation with Kira Maria Shewfelt

    Kira Maria Shewfelt is a Los Angeles-based artist whose paintings engage elements of storytelling and a translation of personal into shared experience. 2024年3月28日
    Taking influence from the literary and visual genres of Magical Realism, Symbolism,m and Romanticism...
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