Review: JOSEPHINE KING: LIFE SO FAR
It's self-portraits all the way in this full-on psychological self-examination by Josephine King, an Anglo-Dutch artist and ceramicist who has lived a turbulent life in several countries. King was diagnosed with bi-polar mania in 1999, and has made eighty ink paintings in the last five years which depict the traumas she could then see it had caused her since 1986. They combine a text border (eg 'I am locked inside a body alien to me') with frontal full-length versions of her self. The colour is all high impact ('colour is my inner world', says King) but with a definite contrast between plausibly vivid clothing and fauvishly improbable flesh. They're a bit too knowing to be described as naive, but give off a strong outsider-style charge: Frida Kahlo comes to mind.
| Review Date | 13 Oct 2010 19:47 |
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Liked
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Psychological self-examination |
Disliked |
Mostly self-portraits |
