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Elsie Kagan

Recommended Bushwick Open Studio: Danielle Mysliwiec & Elsie Kagan

by Paddy Johnson on May 29, 2012
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Elsie Kagan makes luscious paintings of falling cherubs and bright skys. Danielle Mysliwiec makes paintings by weaving paint together. They share a studio and have been painting for years. We’ve discussed both artists work on the blog, and we wanted to catch up with the two of them to see how their work has evolved. This is what they told us.

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In Our Masthead: Elsie Kagan

by Art Fag City on June 30, 2008

Elsie Kagan, Rough Winds Do Shake the Darling Buds of May, 2008
Elsie Kagan, Rough Winds Do Shake the Darling Buds of May, 2008, 72 x 96 inches, acrylic and oil on canvas

Elsie Kagan, Statement

Elsie Kagan's paintings take Baroque imagery and architecture as reference points, pairing the familiar iconography of that period (celestial realms, elaborate framing devices and decoration, figures in states of extremity) with iconic tropes of abstract expressionism (the performed, bodily ‘gesture’, the drip). Figurative and illusionistic elements are constituted–and consumed–by marks and painted elements that lie on the canvas surface. The opposition of these languages is part of an inquiry into themes of authenticity, corporal experience, and control.

Originally from Berkeley, CA, Elsie now lives and works in Brooklyn.

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