“LA BELLE ÉPOQUE” Solo Show – KP PROJECTS Los Angeles

** LA BELLE EPOQUE **

SOLO EXHIBITION

This year, I am celebrating 30 years of life as an Artist. It has been a reflective time having rediscovered paintings from my early beginnings during the late 90’s early 2000’s which had been hidden for the past 16 years in my hometown of Toulouse, France. These paintings, together with my personal stories, have allowed me to reflect on my work, seeing the trajectory of imagery and ideas from then, until now.

Over the years, my focus has been to represent Femininity in all shapes and forms through raw emotion, instinct, and spontaneity. Some of the new paintings have very bright colors (as in my beginnings) while others have more muted and blended hues, sensual and delicate, lush and sultry, odd, magnetic, and mysterious.

The name of the exhibition “La Belle Epoque” refers to The Beautiful Age of Paris, Montmartre where all creatives – artists , poets , dancers, musicians, muses-could meet, share, and enjoy without censure. It was the age of cabaret, circuses, the first nude photographs, a celebration of flesh and sensuality.
Emblematic places where fantasies and desire were expressed freely, and used for creativity to bloom.

The title also refers to a more personal feeling of elation and nostalgia returning and working  again with my first US gallerist  Merry Karnowsky at  KP Projects Gallery. My career first flourished in 2003,  we worked together between 2005 and 2008, when the LowBrow Pop Surreal movement really started to shine brightly in the US before moving into Europe.