Mundane tasks such as washing the dishes, eating food or getting some shuteye on wild and chaotic proportions in There Milez‘Scanny paintings. She portrays characters and a house that reflects her own experiences to start a young family.
Repetitive motives and overactive hands – their connection with a body often unclear – culture A sense of routine, performs jobs and ensuring affection. “They go through their daily routines such as the seasons and repeat on an accelerated 24-hour cycle,” says Milez.
The artist uses the physical and emotional transforming experience of parenting in her solo exhibition Chimera bee Monya Rowe Gallery. The title reflects the name of a fire brigade sample in Greek mythology that was partly, partly goat and partly-dragon. The term “chimera” is sometimes also used to describe a grotesque beast or a fabrication of the imagination. Milez says:
I see my feeling of metamorphosis reflected in different places: in Lucy Jones’ explaining matrescence and chimering, “never being single again”, even on a genetic level; In the work of Tetsuya Ishida, although he embodies a more hopeless and dehumanized transformation in labor tasks; in Night switch Where Amy Adams is converted into a dog because of the original and physical demands of creation and motherhood.
Tetsuya IshidaFor example, it is known for portraying people who have been merged with machines and banal objects in surreal, alienating scenes. Milez also refers to the physical and strength depicted WPA era Working, such as the bodies of the workers in murals by Diego Rivera or Stanley Spencer. The latter was known for large -scale images of everyday employees such as Port Glasgow Shipbuilders on the Clyde River, those people around rhythmic, heavy scenes of the toil around the clock.
In the paintings of Milez, everyday scenes are converted into extensive juggling acts. In many cases, the scenes themselves literally frame the activity, such as the green tiled sink in “hot and cold” that reflects a material shape with clamped hands. In “receptacle”, countless hands, handles and objects around a bulky trash can and stuffed wooden compartments go over with nostalgia in “the years are short.”
Milez highlights the emotional roller coaster of parenting and calls on his discomfort, uncertainties, disorganization and especially dedication. In ‘Goodnight, Lion’, a sleepless mother hull in a cradle to help her CHLD sleep, who evokes wildlife in the wild in a zoo.
“Milez sees somewhere between chaos and upbringing and observes the complicated and constantly changing dynamics between family members and for themselves,” says an explanation for Chimera. “Milez is not afraid to portray the apparently monstrous, but it is never free and always softened by beauty and reality.”
Chimera will continue until March 29 in New York City. Find more about the artist website And Instagram.
