Kathe Burkhart Liz Taylor Series at Cheim and Reaid

Beloved Kathe Burkhart! It's a perfect time to see this work again at https://www.cheimread.com/exhibitions/current

She hones in on our (assuming) love for dish, and all things emotional.

Not to mention trinkets that cheer the girliest soul.

Press release states, "drawing on depictions of actress Elizabeth Taylor from film stills, publicity portraits, tabloid shots, and other visual sources, these works often incorporate unexpected collage elements—including fencing, straw, faux fur, and temporary tattoos among others—that simultaneously undermine the expectations of a painting while questioning the delimiting boundaries between the private and public, the personal and the political."

But--and--there's a potent interchangeability that is not yet refined by history--the heady brew of total permission and Postmodernism.

Yielding combinations like this.

Or this.

The arc of life is captured, artist's punk sensibility uncompromised, the work of a visionary.