Artscope Magazine: WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS?: ANNA KUNZ AT PC GALLERIES
January 4, 2018
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January 4, 2018
Known for its theater, Chicago has a cadre of contemporary visual artists garnering national and international attention due to their performative edge. New England audiences can explore a ripple of that hybrid world with “Anna Kunz: Venus,” an art exhibition from the Windy City on view through February 24 at the Reilly Gallery at Providence College.
In this multimedia show, Kunz’ style of painting expresses a Rolodex of top notes, mixing visual references to Kandinsky, Delaunay, Diebenkorn and Frankenthaler. It simultaneously combines the dance-sourced influences of Diaghilev, Duncan and Cunningham. Not surprisingly, Kunz has recently created stage decor for Chicago performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Speaking to spectacle: this exhibition mingles video projection and props with a wall-size painting composed of gauze scrims refashioned out of materials from “Warped,” a vaulted curtain that Kunz first exhibited at the EXPO Chicago Fair in 2016.
