Angela Kallus: Opening Reception
Kallus’ acrylic relief paintings, with their delicate and purposeful formations, embrace a vibrant floral aesthetic that both embraces and upends a traditional symbol of femininity and romance: the rose. Her obsessive placement of blooms creates an overall velvety feeling like that of a lush rose garden, or perhaps the frosting of an overly ambitious wedding cake. Indeed, to make her rose “sculpture paintings,” she begins with cake decorator’s tools, which she fills with very thick, transparent paint in order to make thousands of rosettes of varying sizes. The overall effect is one of both visual and conceptual disorientation, with a heavy dose of the sublime. Join us for Angela's Studio Series to see her exhibition and hear her lecture about her work, influences, process, and evolution.