South Carolina-based artist Karen Ann Myers paints pictures of the beauty women desire, often at the expense of their own sanity.
Myers’ psychologically intense, densely decorated portraits examine our culture’s hypersexualized obsession with glamour and physical beauty, touching on its aesthetic extremes, seductive appeal, and emotional casualties. Each image represents a certain aspect in a sort of collective self-portrait, with her subjects inhabiting a kaleidoscope of loneliness, power struggles, cocktail dresses, and clashing patterns.
Check out Myers’ Los Angeles exhibition, get a glimpse into her studio, and view her complete prints and paintings in her online portfolio.
Click through below for an image gallery of Myers’ work.
Comments (14)
Just what we need as women — more over-sexed images of the American female in compromised positions. They are also, judging by the digital pictures here, not very well painted. Come on.
She just copies fashion magazines directly… and not just one pic but the whole darn editorial.
Whateva.
Incredible Work!!!!
Would love to meet this woman.
These are amazing; they depict the paradoxes that many women straddle. Kinda surprised that others don’t see that…
These images of objectified women do strike a nerve; they make a statement “against” said objectification, in much the same way as many images of combat are decidedly “anti-war”.
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this strikes the familiar chord of contemporary spectacular young femininity by having one’s cake (critique) and eating it (gaze) too…
can’t really say if this is good or bad at this point…
…this is “the beauty women desire”?! ugh, maybe if you’re from Wisconsin and read way too much Cosmo. Or maybe Seventeen. if you’re going to do a series about the paradox of objectification, at least make it paradoxical.
bland cheesecake for the tabloid nation.
I’m from Wisconsin and I resent Jane – where is she from? (Like I really care) It’s not where you are from – It’s who you ARE.
Vanessa, I don’t know what fashion magazines you’re looking at but this image isn’t in Vogue. Myers provoking this e-conversation is great. I’m looking forward to seeing the entire set of paintings in person on Saturday.
meh.
Do like the toddler inclusion though.
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