Dorothy Circus Gallery is proud to present Tara McPherson’s First Solo Show in Rome, which will be open from next June 11th 2015 till September 26th in the Gallery’s Red Hall .The American artist has been first introduced to the Italian audience by Dorothy Circus Gallery in 2009, during the “Inside Nostalghia” group show, made in collaboration with the Jonathan LeVine Gallery.
Tara McPherson has been more recently exhibited in Italy in 2013 for “Lacrima Aquarium”: an institutional group exhibition curated by Alexandra Mazzanti (Dorothy Circus Gallery), which exhibited works by 33 international artists, inspired by the theme of Water, in the charming and exclusive location of the “Acquario Romano”. Tara McPherson is one of the most impressive and original female artists of the pop surrealist art movement, a pioneer and master of a contaminated technique generated by the mix of highly refined illustration skills with the most patient and expert oil painting study. Since 2006, McPherson is a resident artist of Jonathan Levine Gallery and a leading artist of contemporary art magazine Juxtapoz.
“I Know it By Heart” is the title chosen by the artist for her first Italian solo exhibition, which will feature the artwork created and exhibited for “Scope Art Fair” in Miami: the “Quantum Dancer”. This amazing oil on board painting represents the “female divinity”, an ethereal and mystical figure that symbolises the power of creation and destruction. McPherson’s new body of works will present all the iconographic contents of the artist, but with a newfound vision of Love and Creation that is born from the artist’s personal life experience of becoming a mother.
The Girl With No Heart, Orion, was born as a female figure with a heart-shaped void in her torso, to represent resilience and strength not like a victim but as a beacon of light.
McPherson’s “emotional totems” give the proper room to breathe; by telling stories from outer space, or by moving her frame of reference to the underwater depths, they always offer a romantic and spiritual vision of loneliness and void, which is depicted as vast and unknown environments where all the reflections of ourselves can live in harmony, extending their hands to other dreamers and feeling a cosmic energy passing as a Mantra through that empty-shaped hearts, bridging the lonely gaps of imagination.
With another surprising and charming color palette, this female icon will move us and guide us through an unseen constellation of feelings and emotions.The show will present 8 brand new pieces, created during the artist’s residency in Rome, and a large selection of the most representative rock posters illustrated by the artist such as the ones she made for Death Cab for Cutie, the Melvins, Beck, Franz Ferdinand…and many more.
During her stay in Rome, Tara McPherson will paint her first mural project in a very central area of the City, and her work will be included in the related social street art project “Spray 4 your Rights”.
