Hashimoto Fresh is happy to provide Rainy Dream, a solo exhibition by way of Toronto-based artist Megan Ellen MacDonald. The exhibition can be MacDonald’s 2nd solo presentation at Hashimoto Fresh, and debut solo exhibition in New York Town.
Using three-D tool and digital truth to create intricate scenes, the artist reinterprets those compositions by way of conventional oil portray tactics knowledgeable by way of ancient nonetheless lifestyles portray of the Dutch Golden Technology. Proceeding the exploration of contrasting subject matters of objectification and tool, MacDonald expands on how those subject matters relate to the femme revel in via coded iconography.
For Rainy Dream, the artist depicts distorted, opulent tableaus of herbal components stuffed with flora, skulls and fruit, which allude to the commodification and seduction inside an elaborate internal international; one who clumsily mimics components of ours however maintains its personal distinctive aesthetic. Shiny, overly ripe culmination and flora grasp from refined stems, drooping closely from the load. Shucked oysters tantalizingly name to the viewer, protecting a shimmering pearl at it’s middle. MacDonald’s saturated palette is slick and filled with sun shades of purple, what is thought of as to be a historically femme colour.
About the most recent frame of labor, the artist states, “each and every paintings serves as a souvenir mori and love letter to the complexities of nature that we take with no consideration. Whilst the paintings explores female id and the dichotomy of gender and tool, the narratives within the exhibition come with references to the fragility and great thing about the flora and fauna.”
Seductive but unnerving of their surreal nature, the artist paints scenes which allude to the affect of human intervention with nature, and our inclination to exchange actual international reports with extra curated, commodified existences.