Susan Te Kahurangi King
Character Development
Independent New York
May 9–12, 2024
Spring Studios
50 Varick Street
New York, NY 10013
Vernissage:
Thursday, May 9, 2024, 5–8pm
Public Days:
Friday, May 10, 2024, 11am–7pm
Saturday, May 11, 2024, 11am–7pm
Sunday, May 12, 2024, 11am–6pm
Susan Te Kahurangi King: Character Development presents a break-out taxonomy of figures who otherwise appear in a single large multimedia work by the artist executed in 2017. Selections from the artist’s drawings of well-known characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Cruella de Vil, and Jiminy Cricket are installed in dialogue with this larger work to demonstrate King’s employ of them as both visual anchors and building blocks for decades of invention.
Susan Te Kahurangi King
Character Development
Independent New York
May 9–12, 2024
Susan Te Kahurangi King: Character Development presents a break-out taxonomy of figures
who otherwise appear in a single large multimedia work by the artist executed in 2017. Selections from the artist’s drawings of well-known characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Cruella de Vil, and Jiminy Cricket are installed in dialogue with this larger work to demonstrate King’s employ of them as both visual anchors and building blocks for decades of invention. Indeed, the vast majority of King’s figurative works employ characters not as they are, but as she has dissolved, abstracted, dissected, and reconstituted them over many years. The resulting drawings are familiar but private meditations on color, form, line, and identity.