Ass at the Opera

Been meaning to write about the Jeanne Lorioz show at the Opera Gallery in SoHo, and now I wish I had, ‘cause it’s closing early. More than half the pieces have been sold, and sadly, removed upon sale. (Opera’s NYC branch is a clumsily run gallery with a retail focus.) What’s left is currently occupying the forward area of the storefront, but gallery personnel tell me they’ll begin taking it down Monday (3/19/07).

Whimsical, for sure, but with surprising bits of poignancy, Lorioz’s fat women are happy, bountiful of backside, and at peace. Whether gaily clucking or in fileted repose, the seasoned subjects exhibit a pleasing self-comfort and a delicious disregard for those who gaze upon them. Or maybe that’s just a device to better display their respective badunkadunk.

I appreciate the work being shown, but damn. Hit it today.

OPERA GALLERY NEW YORK
115 Spring Street at Mercer in SoHo
11am to 7

If you miss it, and even if you don’t, here are some of the too few Lorioz links I could land:


Stephanie Hoppen Fine Art Gallery
Galerie des Femmes Rondes

And the Opera Gallery show's site (I'm told they'll be pulling these images when the show closes, the bastids) is here:
http://www.operagallery.fr/artist/LORIOZ_264;0;0.aspx

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