Jenni Ottinger: Letters to the Predator
Ottinger paints human scenarios where manners and refinement break down - from a gruesome football tackle to a questionable circus extravaganza. Ottinger's painted creatures live on the brink between human and not, their peachy facial features dripping and shifting before your eyes. A mouth, shifted just so, looks more like a maw, and eyes lack any semblance of consciousness - or conscience.The show also features a series of soft-sculptures, thrift store teddy bears that have undergone botched surgeries and barely lived to tell the tale. The formerly adorable creatures, mutated and deformed, have no interest in being polite, their chopped and screwed features are visual manifestations of innocence left out to rot.
In Ottinger's a-moral kingdom, being polite is a privilege that too many can't afford. Her power plays, verging between mischievous and savage appear altogether alien, yet still a bit too close too home.
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Ottinger paints human scenarios where manners and refinement break down - from a gruesome football tackle to a questionable circus extravaganza. Ottinger's painted creatures live on the brink between human and not, their peachy facial features dripping and shifting before your eyes. A mouth, shifted just so, looks more like a maw, and eyes lack any semblance of consciousness - or conscience.The show also features a series of soft-sculptures, thrift store teddy bears that have undergone botched surgeries and barely lived to tell the tale. The formerly adorable creatures, mutated and deformed, have no interest in being polite, their chopped and screwed features are visual manifestations of innocence left out to rot.
In Ottinger's a-moral kingdom, being polite is a privilege that too many can't afford. Her power plays, verging between mischievous and savage appear altogether alien, yet still a bit too close too home.
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