Orly Cogan
". . . and don't forget to rescue the princess!"
May 4th -27th Projects Gallery
“. . . and don’t forget to rescue the princess!” a solo exhibition of work by artist Orly Cogan. Cogan uses found vintage linens that once served as table runners or bureau scarves in a more modest age. To these quaint decorative items the artist adds a layer of contemporary attitude that updates a traditionally feminine craft with what critic Margaret Hawkins describes as a kind of “happy-go-lucky post modern perversity.”Cogan's work addresses issues of identity, transformation, physiology, fantasy, humor, irony and the boundaries between the fictional fairytale and the mundane, as well as provocative power issues between the sexes. Playful curvaceous women willfully stuff their faces with cupcakes and pose in tongue-in-cheek cheesecake postures, dressed in knee socks and Mary-Janes. The result is a portrait of girlhood womanly ambitions as well as women’s girlish ambivalence, creating an image of public intimacy. |
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