What looks like a giant centipede curling up on the wall welcomes you into Volitant Gallery. Upon closer inspection, you see that it is a collage of ski masks with pairs linked by a wisp of smoke and feathers wiggling from the sides. Farther away but still clearly visible from the entrance stands a colorful collage of fabrics. Bright greens and yellows alternate with bright pinks and oranges in an almost phallic construction.
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By Jesse Cordes Selbin
The realm of feminist surrealist fantasy is one infrequently explored in pop culture. Femme Fantastique, the current exhibit at contemporary art space the
Volitant Gallery, attempts to do just that, presenting the work of 14 female artists whose work transcends borders and boldly mixesfantasy, playing with the idea of multiple realities.
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Daphane Park is a true original. When she was based in Austin, the University of Texas master's graduate impressed with shows at D Berman Gallery and Women & Their Work. Park's imaginative oil paintings on thick chunks of wood gave us a glimpse of her fantastical cosmos, each image a swirl of color and form that looked like very odd topographical maps. Or were they microscopic views of some heretofore unknown element of nature?
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In the past, when Daphane Park exhibited her paintings at Women & Their Work and D Berman Gallery, the colors in them appeared at times a bit acidic and harsh, like pool chlorine. But even then her work had clarity, an intensity of focus and detail that was compelling. Now she's back with "True Originals," a solo show that contains crisp edges and the old fierceness but with a new figurative gracefulness and earth tones.
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Daphane Park’s The True Originals, a series of twelve mixed media works now showing at the recently opened Volitant Gallery, presents a cast of fairy tale characters as diverse as the artist’s wide range of experiences and influences. As a student at Indiana University and, later, the University of Texas, Park embarked on a series of travels that led her from the suburbs of Indianapolis to the jungles of Central andSouth America and the Etruscan ruins of Italy…
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Is it a white leotard eating a person, or is the person eating the white leotard? And is that person being attacked by the octopuses stuck to her chest, or is she attacking them?…
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