Sept. 25th @ 7pm
CalArts, F200
ART:
Mindy Shapero’s work comes from a rich fantasy world or constructed mythology that
has a significant basis in the literary. The titles of her works are often paragraphs long
and can accompany the work in the form of self-published black and white zines that
serve as a descriptive and informative textual component to the artwork. William Blake
and Henry Darger share a commonality with Shapero in the invention and maintenance
of complex theistic hierarchies and their supporting myths and histories rooted in their
own writing, though with Shapero this carries over into an obsessive understanding of
material that has a correspondence to the myth or fantasy world as if a form of alchemy
understood only by herself.
Mindy Shapero lives and works in Los Angeles.
She is represented by Anna Helwing Gallery in Los Angeles, and CRG in New York.
Links:
http://www.annahelwing.com/artists/mindy_shapero/mindy_shapero.html
http://www.crggallery.com/artists/mindy-shapero/work/


