Better Than Revenge: Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, April 5th, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, June 15th
Come join us at Heaven Gallery for an Artist Talk with Kailyn Perry featuring our new exhibition Better Than Revenge!
April 5, 2025
12 – 1 PM
On view March 14 – April 27
“Better Than Revenge” is a selection of oil paintings by Kailyn Perry that use recognizable Chicago landscapes as a backdrop for personal anxiety and apocalyptic fears. The work is influenced by 19th-century French Impressionism and plein-air painting. Water, specifically Lake Michigan, is a continuous theme throughout the work. The lake’s surface is both placid and erratic: mirroring the outward appearances of composure, while pointing to depths that are turbulent.
Throughout the paintings, femininity is explored. This idea is depicted with purposely stereotypical hysteric imagery: screaming women with red lipstick that is emphatically smudged. Women are often invalidated and not believed. This phenomenon ripples through daily life like a wave: eroding any sense of power. Together, this imagery shows deeply personal stakes, within a world leaning towards collapse. City architecture looms starkly over neon pink sunsets, waves crash violently upon the shoreline, and artificial city lights eerily illuminate the night sky. It is within these constructed worlds that the artist invites the viewer to contemplate an impending universal cataclysm, right alongside her.
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