Nodding to the title of Picasso’s carefully posed 1907 bevy of red-light district workers, ‘Demoiselle D’Avignon,’ Delia Brown’s exhibition ‘Demoiselle d’Instagram’ is a hilarious, tongue-in-cheek take on today’s social media self-styling. Departing radically from her signature realist style, Brown surrounds her subjects in shimmering halos of energy, perhaps emitted from the phones that absorb the attention of each woman. Meanwhile, baby seals float through the air – their plight ignored by self-absorbed humans. (On view at Tibor de Nagy on the Lower East Side through June 17th).
Delia Brown, mountain, red arrow and tree emojis, oil on canvas, 74 x 60 inches, 2018.
Merrily Kerr is an art critic and writer based in New York. For more than 20 years, Merrily has published in international art magazines including Time Out New York, Art on Paper, Flash Art, Art Asia Pacific, Art Review, and Tema Celeste in addition to writing catalogue essays and guest lecturing. Merrily teaches art appreciation at Marymount Manhattan College and has taught for Cooper Union Continuing Education.
For more than a decade Merrily has crafted personalized tours of cultural discovery in New York's galleries and museums for individuals and groups, including corporate tours, collectors, artists, advertising agencies, and student groups from Texas Woman's University, Parsons School of Design, Chicago's Moody Institute, Cooper Union Continuing Education, Hunter College Continuing Education and other institutions. Merrily's tours have been featured in The New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Sydney Morning Herald and Philadelphia Magazine.
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