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Local artist Alison Haley Paul’s face might not be a familiar fixture in La Jolla, but her paintings are. Paul has shown her contemporary landscapes at the Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery on Ivanhoe Avenue for the past nine years and will next show them in the “Twenty Women Artists: Now” exhibition.
The “collective reflection on the challenging conditions women face today” will be presented by the Oceanside Museum of Art from March 13 to Aug. 1.
“She is growing and growing as an artist,” said Victoria Edwards, executive art consultant for the Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery. “What’s unique to her is she is in between contemporary and traditional. . She brings contemporary landscapes [but] she brings a traditional feeling for those who might not want to go totally contemporary.
Exhibition of sculptures by Sarah Lucas on view at Contemporary Fine Arts
Hurricane Doris Installation view 2020 at CFA. Photo: Matthias Kolb.
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.-Contemporary Fine Arts is presenting Hurricane Doris, an exhibition of sculptures by Sarah Lucas. The artists sixth solo exhibition with the gallery encompasses a new group of soft sculptures from her ongoing body of Bunnies as well as a work in bronze from the same series.
The first Bunnies were created as early as 1997 and are becoming increasingly timeless. The new, anthropomorphic figures made out of stuffed pantyhose reclining on chairs are a perpetuation of Lucas recognisable visual language bordering on the surreal. Deploying highly gender-coded found objects such as high heels and nylon stockings, Lucas inflates the notion of female objectification to its apex, only to invert it with an ungainly, exaggerated pose. Reminiscent of the reclining female nude, Lucas thin figures with globular breast comically sprawl the