CatharineClarkGallery

Oropallo’s photomontage and mixed media works exemplify innovations which defy narrow categorizations. From the artist’s Guise series, Oropallo hybridizes her skills as a painter, photographer, and designer to create androgynous and erotic figures, layering masterpiece museum works with contemporary, sexy, Halloween costume elements and combining them into a portrait. 

Each of Oropallo’s canvases source the masculine portrait from the Google Cultural Institute Art Project, which provides online access to masterpieces the world over. Specifically, this work features a Portrait of Franz Liszt (1847) by Miklos Barabas from the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest.

Oropallo’s photomontage and mixed media works exemplify innovations which defy narrow categorizations. From the artist’s Guise series, Oropallo hybridizes her skills as a painter, photographer, and designer to create androgynous and erotic figures, layering masterpiece museum works with contemporary sexy Halloween costume elements and combining them into a portrait. 

Each of Oropallo’s canvases source the masculine portrait from the Google Cultural Institute Art Project, which provides online access to masterpieces the world over. Specifically, this work features the Portrait of the 1st Baron de Dunstanville, Francis Basset (1778), by Pompeo Batoni from the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid. 

Oropallo’s photomontage and mixed media works exemplify innovations which defy narrow categorizations. From the artist’s Guise series, Oropallo hybridizes her skills as a painter, photographer, and designer to create androgynous and erotic figures, layering masterpiece museum works with contemporary sexy Halloween costume elements and combining them into a portrait. 

Each of Oropallo’s canvases source the masculine portrait from the Google Cultural Institute Art Project, which provides online access to masterpieces the world over. Specifically, this work features the Portrait of Moses Gill (1764) by John Singleton Copley from the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art in Providence, Rhode Island.

Oropallo’s photomontage and mixed media works exemplify innovations which defy narrow categorizations. From the artist’s Guise series, Oropallo hybridizes her skills as a painter, photographer, and designer to create androgynous and erotic figures, layering masterpiece museum works with contemporary sexy Halloween costume elements and combining them into a portrait. 

Each of Oropallo’s canvases source the masculine portrait from the Google Cultural Institute Art Project, which provides online access to masterpieces the world over. Specifically, this work features a Portrait of William Fermor (1758) by Pompeo Batoni from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Under Pressure, the third lavatory music video in the Seat Assignment series, features the 1981 David Bowie/Freddie Mercury duet, "Under Pressure." The title alludes to the pressure to perform well, the pressure of time and the mandate to work quickly, the pressure of a small space to perform in, the psychological pressure on a traveler during a long flight, or even the pressurized air of the cabin. The song follows a musical arc that moves from constraint to an overflowing of emotion back to constraint, and the performance here aims to follow a similar trajectory.

Improvising with materials close at hand, the series Seat Assignment consists of photographs, video, and digital images all made while in flight using only a camera phone. The project began spontaneously on a flight in March 2010 and is ongoing. At present, over 2500 photographs and video, made on more than 70 different flights to date, constitute the raw material of the project.  Katchadourian's videos from Seat Assignment are not available for viewing online--exhibition venues and art fairs provide the rare chance to view Katchadourian's videos from this series.  

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