Piped Woman, 2016
acrylic, oil, and oil pastel on muslin, 139.7 x 128.3 cm
image courtesy of the artist and Ellis King, Dublin

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This painting entitled Piped Woman (2016) has been painted by NORA BERMAN and, it’s now presented in the group exhibition dead among the dead!  at Ellis King in Dublin.

Piped Woman (2016) settles a colourful and crisp image, which represents a figure partly covered with a red textile that is seated with the legs wide apart. A third and blue leg is awkwardly conjoined to the body. The eyes are trippy, the hairs are lank, while the background is a hazy mix of clouds and radiant light.

In the press release for an exhibition at Isabella Bortolozzi  in Berlin, it is specified that the work of NORA BERMAN engages ‘with notions of primal consciousness in a time and place (contemporary Los Angeles) that is informed by the Dark Web, conspiracy theory, religious hysteria, ecstatic lifestyle cults, paranoia, neurasthenic self-help, violence and saturation media’.

Playfully fluid and illustrational, her paintings are also enough abstract to consistently change and engage stories.

dead among the dead!  with NORA BERMAN, TINA BRAEGGER, MATT COPSON, ALBRECHT DÜRER, INKA ESSENHIGH, MIKE KELLEY, VEIT LAURENT KURZ, LAZAROS, PETER WÄCHTLER and PEDRO WIRZ is on view at Ellis King until April 23, 2016.

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