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GRIMM is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition by Caroline Walker with the gallery in Amsterdam.
In The Racquet Club, Caroline Walker (1982, UK) presents a new series of paintings for which she chose Palm Springs (California, US) as a scenic backdrop. The desert city, once developed for LA’s upper class and Hollywood’s biggest stars in the 1920s, is famous for its midcentury- modern architecture and design. Palm Springs embodies an artificial sense of ‘the good life’ with its lush gardens, turquoise pools and cooling on-street water misting, all of which defy its desert location.
Works
The Bungalow
Caroline Walker
2016
Oil on linen
155 x 210 cm | 61 1/8 x 82 5/8 in
Pool Closing
Caroline Walker
2016
Oil on board
37 x 30 cm | 14 5/8 x 11 3/4 in
Desert Modern
Caroline Walker
2016
Oil on linen
230 x 325 cm | 90 1/2 x 128 in
Early Evening
Caroline Walker
2016
Oil on board
44 x 40 cm | 17 3/8 x 15 3/4 in
Cabana
Caroline Walker
2016
Oil on linen
175 x 285 cm | 68 7/8 x 112 1/4 in
The Architecture of Leisure
Caroline Walker
2016
Oil on linen
165 x 215 cm | 65 x 84 5/8 in
Artists
Caroline Walker
Caroline Walker's large-scale paintings and intimate drawings focus on women within psychologically charged public spaces such as hotels and beauty parlors. Intimate scenes build upon the language of city life with the pronounced quality of a voyeuristic gaze. Her quietly charged often luxurious spaces, frame half-told narratives that complicate traditional ideas of the woman as subject. The works explore femininity in our modern, image-conscious age.
Press
The Racquet Club
GRIMM Press Release
‘Voyeur in zonnig resort’, Het Parool
by Sophia Zürcher