Review by Mary Hrbacek
In "Little Mermaids," - Ginna Triplett's solo exhibiiton - soft-porn pin-ups, sweetly erotic Disney characters, and lingerie models seduce the viewer with their appealing smiles and kinky poses. The exaggerated idealizations of women pictured in sexy catalogues and Playboy magazine stimulate Triplett to do some makeovers that she feels are more aligned with reality. She tweaks these idealized beings by inserting unsightly physical distortions that bring them back to the real world. Triplett, a mother of young children, transforms perfect fantasy figures that appear to devalue her own domestic existence, by creating altered, imperfect female forms that remain surprisingly attractive, despite their flaws.
Smokin Mermaid
Triplett makes Xerox copies of figures from books and catalogues and, through an intuitive, stream-of-consciousness process, traces and recombines them on her format. She draws freehand into the shapes, eliminating and altering body parts by sanding to subtract areas, until the forms morph into maimed beauties with biological mutations. She creates her linear imagery with either red or black lines drawn over a flesh-toned format. The process allows her to purge her consciousness by bringing inner conflicts between fantasy and reality into visible form. Her desire to probe the love-hate relationship with these fantasy images spurs her explorations.
The young women pictured in pin-up undergarments, fishnet stockings and push-up bras all play their seductive part to promote the product they advertise. The artist is both attracted and repulsed by their overly simplified contours. Her final mutations might include razor sharp teeth jutting unexpectedly from a lovely torso, or an eye imbedded in a beautifully rounded bud-like breast, all bathed in lovely warm tones.
Triplett explores the boundary between abstraction and representation by using multiple images on a flat format that brims with women in erotic poses that appeal to the libido despite their imperfections.
Ginna Triplett - "Little Mermaids" @ Umbrella Arts/curcioprojects,
317 East 9th Street NYC, Thursday - Sunday 12-7 through August 3rd
1-646-220-2557
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