Up for sale at Sotheby’s this week from the collection of Marc Jacobs is a 1996 painting by Karen Kilimnik, Mary Calling Up a Storm. Get to know the artist here:
Up for sale at Sotheby’s this week from the collection of Marc Jacobs is a 1996 painting by Karen Kilimnik,with such great passion it’s a wonder that he’s able to part with it. “I have this primitive connection to it,” he said in an interview with Amy Cappellazzo, Sotheby’s chairman and executive vice president. Adding another layer is Jacobs’sherself: “I think of Karen as if she is me, like if I were a little girl in my own little bedroom.
The art world first fell in love with Kilimnik in the 1980s, particularly with her scratchy drawings of fashionable people like Kate Moss, Brigitte Bardot, and the like. If the depictions are PG or maybe PG-13, the narratives veer from PG to rated R. Kilimnik sketches in pencil on paper, paints in oil on canvas, takes photographs, makes collages, and bejewels store-bought puzzles.
Though Kilimnik’s work seems steeped in history, she isn’t reverent about much of anything. Appreciative, yes, in a fangirl type of way, but the seeming naivete of Kilimnik’s work is deceiving. It has also led some critics to fault her technique. There is a loose quality to the artist’s paint strokes, and she’s been known to “bedazzle” a painted landscape with the addition of rhinestones or adhere shiny fish stickers over a photograph.
Early on Kilimnik was described as a “scatter” artist—a sort of pre-digital way of describing a kind of cut-and-paste or assemblage technique. Because Kilimnik’s aesthetic is über feminine, it’s easy for some to dismiss the work as being surface or “girly.” But this artist’s world is not all sugar; there’s spice too.
Thirty-plus years into her career, Kilimnik still has stars in her eyes. She’s also a serious artist: the estimate onHere, the artist, whose work is currently on display atPhotos: © Karen Kilimnik / Courtesy of 303 Gallery
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