KOTTIE PALOMA
Le opere cupamente umoristiche ed espressioniste di Kottie Paloma gettano luce sul lato più oscuro e ridicolo dell’umanità. Situati a metà strada tra rappresentazione e astrazione, dipinti bicolore come The Madness in My Area (2021) o Odd Journey to the Slow Dentist (2021) presentano fitti schemi di forme e simboli, la maggior parte dei quali sono difficili da riconoscere o definire. Le composizioni di Paloma, che spesso si estendono fino ai bordi delle sue tele, alludono alla narrativa pur rimanendo alquanto sfuggenti. L’artista si ispira ai personaggi incontrati durante le sue peregrinazioni notturne attraverso i quartieri gentrificanti di Berlino e il piccolo villaggio della Baviera settentrionale che ora chiama casa; Paloma attinge costantemente ad aspetti della propria esperienza per creare le sue opere, fondendo la realtà con un’iconografia personale estratta direttamente dal suo inconscio.
Upcoming Solo Exhibitions:
March 2022 Saatchi Yates Gallery, London, England
May 2022 Bjorn und Gundorph Gallery, Aahus, Denmark
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Solo Exhibitions
2021 Dream Decay, Galeria Alegria, Barcelona, Spain
2021 Ominous, Slow, Burn, Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome, Italy
2021 New Front Teeth, Ruttkowski;68, Paris, France
2020 Dante, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2019 Hit and Run, Ober Gallery, Kent, CT
2014 Say to the Flower, Das Gift, Berlin, Germany
2014 XOXO, Ada Gallery, Richmond. Virginia
2013 Post Punk Domestication, MOHS Exhibit , Copenhagen, Denmark
2011 Creeps, MOHS Exhibit , Copenhagen, Denmark
2011 Life’s ILL, Munch Gallery, Ny, Ny.
2011 Flush It, Paroah Maybelline Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.
2010 The Darker Side of POP, JAS Gallery, Paris France
2010 Fragments of a Fictional Reality, Booklyn Artists Alliance, Brooklyn, New York
2008 New New, Booklyn Artists Alliance, Brooklyn, New York
2008 Kottie Paloma and The Daily Strangers, Fecal Face Dot Gallery, San Francisco.Ca.
2007 Playing With Tigers, New High Gallery, China Town, Los Angeles
2006 In the Valley of the Sun, Triple base Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.
2005 Strands of the Culture, Low Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Group Exhibitions
2021 Jin Angdoo, Kottie Paloma, A.R. Penck in Turin
2021 Doppelgänger, Saatchi Yates, London, England
2021 Humans, Deli Grocery, Brooklyn, New York
2021 Misa at Koenig Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2021 Paper Works, NBB Gallery, Berlin Germany
2019 Terrain Biennial OTT-HOPPS, Pasaden, CA.
2019 At Odds, No Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2018 It’s Ok, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2017 Show Time, Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany
2017 New Garden Romance on Artsy, curated by John Wolf
2017 Mutual Affection , ArtMovement LA, Los Angeles, CA.
2017 Dimensional Circumstances, Los Angeles, CA.
2017 Bakers Dozen Torrance Art Museum
2017 Blocker, Alma Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2016 15 x 21, AffenfaustGalerie, Hamburg, Germany
2016 Tiger Augen, Jaus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. United States
2016 Cyan/Anthracite, Affenfaust Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2015 Gravity and Grace, Hochparterre, Berlin, Germany

Kottie Paloma, Dumb Man With Devil Cat, 2021, acrilico su tela, 90 x 70 cm. ©sveva_angeletti

Kottie Paloma, Study For Bank Holiday, 2021, penna e inchiostro su carta, 70 x 50 cm. ©sveva_angeletti

Kottie Paloma, Excavation Of Failed Times, 2021, acrilico su tela, 180 x 200 cm. ©sveva_angeletti

Kottie Paloma, The Well, 2021, penna e inchiostro su carta, 70 x 50 cm. ©sveva_angeletti

Kottie Paloma, Village Bitch Idiot, 2021, acrilico su tela, 140 x 110 cm
