Carole Caroompas:聽Heathcliff and the Femme Fatale Go on Tour
Laguna Art Museum presents Carole Caroompas: Heathcliff and the Femme Fatale Go on Tour, a series of works created between 1997-2001. Here, feminist artist Carole Caroompas took inspiration from the lead character in Emily Bronte鈥檚 19th-century novel Wuthering Heights, turned him into a rockstar, joined him with the self-inspired, dangerous sexual presence, the 鈥淔emme Fatale,鈥� and sent them on a journey of desire and destruction. Throughout her career, Caroompas (1949-2022) drew from a diverse array of sources, including art history, rock music, zines and magazines, literature, film and advertisements to both reflect and subvert gender roles, power dynamics and the construction of identity. These works are dynamic in their hybrid forms and color, involving periods of intense research, sketching, drawing, painting, collage, embroidery and other approaches with found materials and on canvas.
Laguna Art Museum presents Carole Caroompas: Heathcliff and the Femme Fatale Go on Tour, a series of works created between 1997-2001. Here, feminist artist Carole Caroompas took inspiration from the lead character in Emily Bronte鈥檚 19th-century novel Wuthering Heights, turned him into a rockstar, joined him with the self-inspired, dangerous sexual presence, the 鈥淔emme Fatale,鈥� and sent them on a journey of desire and destruction. Throughout her career, Caroompas (1949-2022) drew from a diverse array of sources, including art history, rock music, zines and magazines, literature, film and advertisements to both reflect and subvert gender roles, power dynamics and the construction of identity. These works are dynamic in their hybrid forms and color, involving periods of intense research, sketching, drawing, painting, collage, embroidery and other approaches with found materials and on canvas.
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Laguna Art Museum presents Carole Caroompas: Heathcliff and the Femme Fatale Go on Tour, a powerful exhibition showcasing a series of works created between 1997 and 2001 by the late feminist artist Carole Caroompas.
