Poise, Posture, and Profanity

Apr 24, 2009

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Artchitecture Gallery’s “Poise, Posture, and Profanity” is a dual exhibit of work by local artist Arabella Proffer-Vendetta, and the elusively located Andrea Heimer. Despite their different styles and technique, both artists share a love of portraiture with loose references to history and pop culture. Their common themes of feminine power, fashion, beauty and design are developed with a notion of evil doing.

Arabella will be debuting a new series of fashionable punk and gothic aristocratic miniatures – not to be mistaken with small dolls. Her work is darkly whimsical with touches of decadence, beauty and self-confidence, and her style is similar to Laureen McCubbin, illustrator of Rent Girl. “I’m doing half the show in my usual manner of fake mannerist portraits with little biographies I make up, and the other half is 5×7’s, a new format for me. I wanted to get away from being too rigid with costume research and see what images came to me. They are like little made up friends or ancestors, wearing fashions, and having hair I wish I had. In a loose way, you could say the whole show is about rebellion and romance.”

Cleveland can appreciated a good lowbrow artist, so Arabella’s been picked up by numerous galleries in the area and been offered a hefty handful of shows with regional favorites. She was introduced to counter-culture at a young age, which has been the driving force behind her work and the reason for her juxtaposition of tattoos, piercing and nobles in portraiture. Her well-known counterpart for the show, Andrea, will be complimenting the Ohio artist’s paintings with work from her recent series of voyeuristic mixed media illustrations of photo quality, dramatic, red-lipped women inspired by the pages of romance comics.

Tonight, April 24th, 7-10 PM
Artchitecture Gallery
1667 East 40th

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