LENA & MIRA’S LAST DAYS OF AUTUMN

Tue - Sat, 12 - 6pm Born in an isolated village outside of Tel Aviv, Israel, US based artist Kukula was exposed to Holcust survivors at an early age. Coupled with a young girl’s fantasies about princesses and fairytales, KuKula’s work draws from this strange dichotomy of historical horrors and the fantastical worlds of a child’s imagination. Centered on lithe yet buxom milk-skinned figures that resemble dolls, KuKula’s most recent works explore more complicated thematic landscapes, such as melancholia and apathy. Rife with a decadent sexual tension, her figures often appear in antiquated settings in which they languish in grand baroque interiors rich with details of luxury; marble floors, towering gardens and glittering chandeliers. Fashioned in a contemporary wardrobe that references high end labels Chanel, Miu Miu and Chloe, their pale skin has literally become ‘diseased’ with the opulent beauty with which they have obsessively surrounded themselves with, manifesting as beautiful growths of clockwork gears, teacup handles and filigreed molding. Within this lavish world, the beautiful figures appear more realistic than in the past, their smooth faces carrying a more potent emotive nuance that compliments the sophisticated evolution of her technique. Often appearing alone or paired with an Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.