"Joy Ride" reviewed in The Coastal Post
Our co-founder Lauren sat down with artist, graphic designer, freelance writer, and PP friend Jen Shepard to discuss our second online show. The interview and wonderfully penned review is now live on The Coastal Post! While Joy Ride ended July 1 and works are no longer available, an archive of the show still exists on our site.
An excerpt from the review:
In her own words, Hirshfield describes this exhibition as “championing radical joy and blissful escapism.” And it definitely delivers. Lindsey Kircher’s work features colorful scenes of women in various stages of undress, frolicking in the grass, dancing, and bathing. The work feels exuberant and joyful if not slightly fantastical and sometimes erotic. Hirshfield refers to works such as these as “neo-rococo dreamscapes” which is fitting. The themes and colors come across as frivolous, surreal, and celebratory. Think Frangonards’ The Swing– the dreamy 1767 painting is like having a sherbet ice cream on a hot day. Kircher’s work might be more akin to having a “Bomb Pop” or a flavored ice, but you get the idea. Then there is Keisha Prioleau-Martin’s work, which also delivers in this capacity. Her piece Wild Water features an abstracted figure dancing against a hazy underwater landscape, kicking up her heels and waving her fingers in a way that seems to suggest playing a musical instrument. It is truly exuberant. Judi Keeshan’s bold, fat shapes bounce from canvas to canvas, demanding jubilation through their vibrant, Matisse-esque colorscapes. Byron Mark Fredericks’ chunky, neon vases are ecstatic and bold, exhibiting a childlike immediacy that is nothing short of infectious.
Body Shots, by Lindsey Kircher, (sold)