Mark Borghi in Sag Harbor presents an exhibit of work by artist Dana Louise Kirkpatrick titled “Dial 0 For Anything.”
The show will open on Friday, November 25, and there will be an artists reception on Saturday, November 26, from 5:30 to 8 PM. The show runs through January 4.
Dana Louise Kirkpatrick, born Cambridge, Massachusetts 1976, raised in Washington, D.C. is contemporary artist whose emotive line quality echos of German expressionism. Based in New York City, her work succinctly examines societal, cultural, political, individual and collective plights casting light on the disenfranchised.
Dana Louise’s current body of work stems from an eight month stay at Hollywood’s iconic Chateau Marmont. Kirkpatrick has created nearly 50 drawings on hotel letterhead with graphite and colored pencils, utilizing collage technique. Sourcing inspiration from the deranged comfort found in adored American cartoon characters wholly aware of their “complex psychological interpretations and sinister undertones.”
Kirkpatrick creates visual statements on societal turmoil. Highlighting the escapism found in these “charming, hapless, hopeless heroes, crooked forlorn outsiders and blow-you-up villains” by pairing them with timely text, headlines and visual cues sourced from our daily news cycle. Corruption, injustice, and social upheaval inform the subject of many works in this collection.