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Kate Groobey: The Good Life
Ever Gold [Projects] is pleased to present The Good Life, an exhibition of new work by UK-based artist Kate Groobey. In a new series of paintings and video performances, Groobey explores the notion of 鈥渢he good life鈥� through the presentation of a new set of characters and their behaviors.
Her characters are active, busying themselves, trying to live their lives well. They are striving towards goals, reading books, exercising, hunting for treasures, and skinny dipping. They are healthy, wealthy enough, strong, and beautiful and have good relationships with friends, family, and lovers. But as the characters go in search of the good life, their quest is, at times, thwarted by excess, obsession, and anxiety. Groobey鈥檚 characterizations are humorous and truthful, illustrating our various attempts at self-improvement and ways we might stumble along the way.
Each of Groobey鈥檚 characters is based on a series of watercolors that portray an intimate moment between herself and a friend, family member, acquaintance, or lover. Each watercolor captures an impactful moment, a phrase, or a distinctive trait. Each becomes, simultaneously, a fleeting insight into Groobey鈥檚 relationships and reflections, as well as an archetypal character trait, emotion, behavior, or situation that everyone can recognize in themselves and in their own lives or in the people they live and work with.
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Ever Gold [Projects] is pleased to present The Good Life, an exhibition of new work by UK-based artist Kate Groobey. In a new series of paintings and video performances, Groobey explores the notion of 鈥渢he good life鈥� through the presentation of a new set of characters and their behaviors.
Her characters are active, busying themselves, trying to live their lives well. They are striving towards goals, reading books, exercising, hunting for treasures, and skinny dipping. They are healthy, wealthy enough, strong, and beautiful and have good relationships with friends, family, and lovers. But as the characters go in search of the good life, their quest is, at times, thwarted by excess, obsession, and anxiety. Groobey鈥檚 characterizations are humorous and truthful, illustrating our various attempts at self-improvement and ways we might stumble along the way.
Each of Groobey鈥檚 characters is based on a series of watercolors that portray an intimate moment between herself and a friend, family member, acquaintance, or lover. Each watercolor captures an impactful moment, a phrase, or a distinctive trait. Each becomes, simultaneously, a fleeting insight into Groobey鈥檚 relationships and reflections, as well as an archetypal character trait, emotion, behavior, or situation that everyone can recognize in themselves and in their own lives or in the people they live and work with.
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