Can I be your baby girl?

Can I be your baby girl? 2012. Various Dimensions.

                                         Chris. 2012. 19 '' wall mounted LCD screen, 3.36 minute on loop.

   Installation view of table.

These are some images of my latest exhibition held at the Pearce Gallery. This work was centered around my explorations of misogyny within contemporary culture, domesticity and gender ideals.

Beauty Queen

   
                                  Beauty Queen. 2012. Ink Jet Print. 210 x 148 mm

Been having fun playing around with appropriated images as of late, hours of fun with not a lot of pressure makes me a happy girl :-)

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Breeezy wants to love you.

Untitled (Breezy wants to love you 1.) 2012. Ink Jet Print 210 x 148 mm.

Untitled (Breezy wants to love you 2.) 2012. Ink Jet Print 210 x 148 mm.

Yo breezy! 

These prints where from a series where I began to explore misogyny within pop culture more specifically pop music ( yes I no Chris, you probably consider yourself some amazing hip hop gangster god) and how its themes/ideals are operating within contemporary society.

Gotta love a bit of misogyny over the dinner table right?

Art Crush- Marianna Rothen

When my beautiful friend Maria returned from a trip to New York she gave me a little postcard from an exhibition of Marianna Rothen's photographs she had attended in the city of dreams with strict instructions that I must check out her practice, and I was instantly in love.

Her photographs have a beautiful light air to them whilst remaining captivating even after hour's of staring. The nod to nostalgic glamour of the 50s/60/70s of course had me drooling but I enjoy the fact that they are not denying their contemporary roots. She often places herself within an image but also employs a variety of female models, allowing for many a role to be played.

I am truly in awe of her work. Art/life/beauty crushing hard.

http://www.mariannarothen.com/

BETTY WANTS YOU TO EAT THE PACKET.

                Betty and me. 2012. Colour Ink Jet Print. 210 x 148 mm.

An image from some experimentations with staging and photography.

 Just playing around and having fun really, had a few new friends that day as I had made a rather large batch of cookies and a girl can only eat so many packet born cookies. 

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the american life

These are some stills from a work where I edited mundane clips of domestic American life of the 1950's into a simply video sequence. Visual Video doodling at its best. 

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Oh, Brother

George. 2012. Black and White Ink print. 210 x 148 mm.

An image and some stills from a photo and video series I did with my Twin brother. He's pretty handsome huh??

A bit much Bitch

These are some stills from a video work I made in collaboration with Clinton Richards and Sarah Byron Wood for the exhibiton Trans-action held at the Pearce Gallery in April 2012. 

               Image courtesy of Artsdiary. 

Check out some other shots of the exhibition here http://artsdiary.co.nz/bt12/454/1.html

Picture Goer 59.

These are a series of works that were exploring post war america and idealized versions of the female psyche within a contemporary context.

                  Milk with your loved ones. 2012. Black and White Ink Print 1189 x 841 mm

Ginger and Big. 2012. Colour Laser Print. 297 x 210 mm

                                                   

                       Smile with your eyes. 2012. Black and White Laser print. 297 x 210 mm

Hot Dog.

Hotdog. from lydia doczi on Vimeo.

oui oui

Eleven in a row

Stills from a work a few months old.

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You said we could be friends.

Have had this on repeat for the last three days. This is in my opinion a good example of how to incorporate Abstract expressionism and Art in general into a commercial work without robbing Art of it's integrity. #artbandwagonfrustration

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ナチュラルアッシュベイビーブロンド

Photos by Steven Fernandez 2011 - A lovely friend who kindly took my prints to japan with him.

Friendship is amazing.

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My mother wouldnt like this

 

Playing with Knives.......

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Why cant we pantomime

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Blanche Baby

These are from the first photo shoot I completed exploring the character Blanche. Just really playing around, trying to grasp her personality through styling,poses, post production..... xx

Natural Ash Baby Blonde.

These works explore the concept of role play within society, and my own obsession with assuming a character in order to distance oneself from others and the reality of contemporary life.

Glorification of celebrity, worship, and escapism are themes that operate at the core of these works.

The creation of a narrative following an external character which is separate from myself is a reflection of my own personal obsession and glorification of former starlets. Role play can create barriers from the reality of life and effect personal identity, these are ideas also explored throughout the series.

The series is based upon the formal studio portraits of young actresses and starlets from the 1950s, and were shot in a studio.

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The heart you think you gave me.

Translation of objects through self portraiture.

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Zsa Zsa

Lately I have been exploring my obssession with Zsa Zsa Gabor. Fame, Glamour, Death and Decay are themes that I am enjoying playing with. Watch this space.

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