Miso – Cornucopia
Also showing: Jason Freeny Molt and William Mortensen American Grotesque
February 6 – March 1, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, February 6th, 8-11 PM
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles, CA 90027
www.laluzdejesus.com
Cornucopia began life as a meditation on 16th century Flemish still life paintings, but evolved into something more descriptively elusive. The relatively small, but lavishly illuminated oil paintings that comprise the exhibition feature botanical wonders alongside the dissected anatomical figures that populate Karen Hsiao‘s fantasy Miso world.
The titular cornucopia relates to Hsiao’s vast collection of specimens, both flora and fauna, that continue the tradition of scientific classification paintings spanning Audubon to Walton Ford–but reflecting a modern context of fetishistic connoisseurship.
Karen Hsiao is a self taught Fine Art photographer whom uses intense subject matters in an unconventional way. Primarily a figurative painter in her early years, Hsiao has since explored the figure and its space through various mediums, creating pieces that are both tactile and intuitive. Photography was a natural extension of that process which Hsiao has sought to perfect. Her work has captured the attention of many, having been shown in galleries both nationwide and abroad. A graduate from Art Center College of Design with a BFA, Hsiao lives and works in Los Angeles.
