Los Angeles Fine Artist Frau Sakra to show at You Think I’m Psycho, Don’cha Mama? Group Show, MAD.KAT Gallery, Rancho Mirage, CA
You Think I’m Psycho, Don’cha Mama?
April 26-May 31, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 26, 5-9 PM
MAD.KAT Gallery
71590 Highway 111
Rancho Mirage, CA, 92270
gallerymadkat.com
MAD.KAT presents its wildest (and weirdest) exhibition yet with YOU THINK I’M PSYCHO, DON’CHA MAMA?, featuring 17 artists that bring the SURREAL, HYPERREAL, and UNREAL.
Frau Sakra’s contribution to this group show includes her paintings “The Deaths of Isadora Duncan and Two of Her Children,” oil on board in hand-painted frame, 17.5 x 26.5”, “The Dichotomous Organist,” oil on board 21.5 x 25.5”, and “The Legend of Lady Lichtenberg,” oil on board in a vintage frame, 23.5 x 29.5”.
ABOUT FRAU SAKRA
Frau Sakra (aka Thea Saks) lives in Los Angeles. She is largely self-taught; but in her first life, when she worked in New York as a book and scientific journal editor, she took night classes at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design. Now her home library of illustration, design, architecture, and literature helps feed her head with ideas for art. Frau Sakra’s oil paintings and ink drawings tell dark, romantic, or otherwise provocative stories, revisit history, push the envelope, and hopefully make people want to learn more. History, biography, and folklore are often springboards for her work. There’s usually action in her art—something meaningful is happening, or someone is being taken by surprise or experiencing the consequences of their own or someone else’s actions. The art is rarely static. The subject matter is usually but not always dark.
Website: frausakra.com
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Instagram: @frausakra
ARTIST’S STATEMENT:
I’m excited to be showing for the first time at Mad Kat Gallery! Each of my three paintings for this show tells a bizarre tale. One is biographical, about how the dancer Isadora Duncan and two of her children died. The other two, which are fictional, tell of a pipe organist who celebrates both good and evil in his music and an 18th-century noblewoman kissed by an electrical charge in the shape of a man.
YOU THINK I’M PSYCHO, DON’CHA MAMA? artist list
This adventurous show features art from Frau Sakra, Penrider, John Sauer, Brady Willmott, Margaret Chiaro, Jym Davis, Lucinda Luvaas, Miles McDermott, Deirdre Ferrell White, Mark Bryan, Cali Sales, Marco Franchina, Suzanne Howe, Mary Noga, Adam Cooley, Kim A. Tolman, and Lu Yue.
ABOUT MAD.KAT GALLERY (from their website)
MAD.KAT Gallery is a fine art gallery specializing in a wide selection of contemporary styles, including abstract, surrealism, magical realism, representational, and modern expressionism, by an exceptional array of established and emerging international and U.S. artists. We program a season of four to six themed exhibitions each year that highlight painting, mixed media, sculpture, textile art, fine art photography, and other media. We strive to build long-term collaborative relationships with our clients, offering advice and expertise when needed to help them find the perfect piece in every instance. MAD.KAT Gallery offers full service from selection guidance to delivery and installation. We strive to make our gallery a welcoming space; each visit is an opportunity to discover new and intriguing art.
For more information about Frau Sakra, interviews, images, etc
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