Tondo Folk Girls
Artwork details
- Artist
- Christine Finley
- Title
- Tondo Folk Girls
- Date
- 2011
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Sheet
- 40 inches round inches
- Status
- Available
- Price
- Price on request
From trash bins to the most elevated, hermetic imagery, C. Finley equates values of high culture with standardized, mundane objects in forms of independent, self-contained works and direct interventions into public space. Pointedly revealing a softened, feminine perspective from within and without, Finley’s practice revolves around an idea of beautification; a noble idea to magnify the visual aesthetics of the municipal realm, ultimately marred by its self-aware masking of more daunting socio-political dynamics that no amount of pretty paint or covering can change. Gleefully executed, but with a grounded understanding of the politics of the constructed image. Exercising gestures rooted in graffiti and street art.
