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Francesca Gabbiani’s fun with paper
Francesca Gabbiani’s vividly colored cut-paper collages are steeped in the creepier, weirder side of pop culture and culture in general. Horror movies, the films of Jean Cocteau, hippy jewelry sporting the images of cannabis leaves, Lewis Carroll - it’s all fodder for the Los-Angeles-based Gabbiani who’s getting her third solo show at Lora Reynolds Gallery.
No wonder there’s a familiarity to Gabbiani’s work: It’s a mash-up of cultural references that many of us have stuffed in our minds.
These images of people-less interior scenes or odd arrangements of flora and fauna are cinema-esque, quasi-psychedelic, stuffed with pop culture references and suffused with a kind of adolescent melancholia. An ornate boudoir sits empty. An owl and a fox pose next to a heap of odd treasures.
Gabbiani’s is not intellectually deep stuff, but it’s fun.
Read the full review here.
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