Karen Black brings the bedroom into play for this latest series of paintings. What is usually a private space is shared with the public, in order to consider control, autonomy and voyeurism (or, ‘ways of seeing’ which involves distortion or strange narratives). Naomi Riddle writes in the catalogue essay, ‘We must look through an abstract frame to discover a figurative scene. And, the longer we look, we find other windows inside of these scenes.’
Karen Black in her studio with works featured in ‘It’s Not Real’, 2020. Photograph: Anna Kucera. Courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
Sullivan+Strumpf
13 to 28 March 2020
Sydney
