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Press Release Francine Spiegel presents seven new paintings and a suite of photographs from a secret performance piece for her debut solo exhibition at Deitch Projects. During the opening Francine will enact one of her messy, sloppy performances in the storefront gallery that visitors can view from the street, shielded form the flying fluids by the front window. … (read more)

Press Release

Francine Spiegel presents seven new paintings and a suite of photographs from a secret performance piece for her debut solo exhibition at Deitch Projects. During the opening Francine will enact one of her messy, sloppy performances in the storefront gallery that visitors can view from the street, shielded form the flying fluids by the front window.

Francine is a young painter living in upstate New York whose overall oeuvre seeks what Barbara Creed terms the "monstrous feminine." Stitched together porno-Frankenstein style, the fragmented females depicted in her paintings are half-alive and half-dead, half-confused and half-horny. Built up from imagery stolen from monster magazines, horror films, or fetish websites, Spiegel's fantastically seductive hotties look like gory super-heroines. Their abject gazes attract and repel like soggy Medusas.

Courtesy of Deitch Projects

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