To our friends in the South, go check out this show at Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts from one of the most exciting painters to emerge in last five years: Replica is an exhibition of new and recent paintings by Kate Meissner, and the artist’s first institutional solo show. Meissner’s lurid canvases depict scenes both seductive and unsettling. Otherworldly figures inhabit settings reminiscent of nightclubs, theaters, hospitals and dressing rooms, where one is often watched or examined. Drawing just as much from surrealist filmmakers as from past painting traditions, Meissner’s work evokes fantastical private moments from a stage play that the audience was never intended to see.
Image: Kate Meissner, Chromatic Aberration, 2023. Oil on canvas, 43 x 48 in. Gift of Sasha and Charlie Sealy. Collection of the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, UAB.
