ROTATING EXHIBITION

"BUTTERFLY EFFECT”

albertz benda and Park House Dallas are pleased to present Butterfly Effect, an exhibition ofrecent works by Kelly Reemtsen. Known for vivid depictions of impeccably dressed women wielding powertools, Reemtsen uses saturated color and densely worked surfaces to consider power, agency, andexpectation in contemporary femininity.In Dallas, she extends this language across a group of new paintings on panel shown alongside Japanesewoodcuts, screen prints, and etchings. Rather than separating mediums, the exhibition reveals how theyfeed one another: prints become a site for testing color, pattern, and repetition, while those experimentsreturn to the canvases as altered compositions and motifs.At the center of the exhibition are two major modular oilpaintings from the artist’s Migration series, each composedof three panels that can be arranged in multipleconfigurations. Figures in these works wear butterfly-patterned dresses against backgrounds echoing the samemotif, a direct outgrowth of earlier screenprints in whichgarment and ground share a single pattern. Here, the“butterfly effect” becomes both title and method: smallshifts in one medium—an overlap of pattern, a variation inscale— set off a chain of new possibilities in another.Taken together, the works in Butterfly Effect chartReemtsen’s evolving vocabulary, revealing how subtlechanges in material and process can open onto anexpansive visual terrain.

‍The Artist
Kelly Reemtsen (b. 1967, Flint, Michigan) is best known for her bright and bold paintings of women carrying householdtools such as chainsaws or axes. Her work often investigates the role of the modern woman, deconstructing societalperceptions of gender, power and femininity. Reemtsen's paintings are characterized by their thick impasto, starkwhite backgrounds, and anonymous figures.Reemtsen is currently based in Los Angeles and London. She studied fashion design and painting at Central MichiganUniversity and California State University Long Beach. Reemtsen has been involved with printmaking since the 1990s,studying etching and screen printing in workshops and with educators across the United States. Kelly Reemtsen’s workhas been exhibited widely in North America, and is part of the Twentieth Century Fox and AT&T corporate collections.

About albertz brenda

Founded in 2015, albertz benda is a contemporary art gallery with an international program exploring material andtextility as well as cultural and social dialogues. Our Chelsea space is host to rotating exhibitions with an emphasis onsolo presentations of emerging artists, new research into historic figures, and thematic group exhibitions. In 2021, thegallery expanded to a second location in Los Angeles. Featuring an evolving identity separate from our New Yorkprogram, the LA space is realized within the context of a domestic setting, advancing new connections between visualarts, craft, and design.

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