Yancey Richardson Gallery present Five, the fifth solo exhibition at the gallery by Dutch artist Hellen van Meene. Best known for her portraits of young girls in various stages of adolescence, van Meene’s photographs are characterized by their exquisite use of light, formal elegance, and palpable psychological tension. In these new works, van Meene retains her signature style while adding an allegorical element that pushes these images into a new fantastical realm evoking familiar images from the art historical canon.
Projecting the uncanny quality of fairy tales and horror movies, van Meene peoples her images with somnabulent girls, headless bodies, faceless figures and solitary young women encapsulated in empty, luminous rooms. Based in the outskirts of Amsterdam, the Dutch-born van Meene has been steeped in the traditions of classical painting. Like many artists of the last century, she draws on this knowledge to create contemporary images that, in her case, evokes that of Ingres, Millais, Vermeer and Velasquez.
EXHIBITION
Hellen Van Meene, Five
Last Days
From December 10, 2015 to January 23, 2016
Yancey Richardson Gallery
525 West 22nd Street
NYC, NY 10011
United States
T : 646.230.9610
http://www.yanceyrichardson.com
