My mind is a marshmallow dove
Artist: Morgane Richer La Flèche
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28” x 38”
Artist: Morgane Richer La Flèche
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28” x 38”
Artist: Morgane Richer La Flèche
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28” x 38”
About the Exhibition
Do I Dare Eat A Peach? is a group exhibition celebrating gathering, consumption, and aging through the perspectives of five emerging female artists from the U.S. and U.K. Inspired by T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the title symbolizes anxieties around judgment, particularly regarding femininity and sensuality. The works depict women reclaiming their narratives and challenging societal taboos, exploring themes of empowerment, identity, and community through gatherings, food, and drink. Featuring paintings, ceramics, and sculpture, the exhibition redefines stereotypes surrounding women's bodies, eating habits, and societal expectations, offering a powerful critique and celebration of female representation.
About the Artist
Morgane Richer La Flèche is a canadian-born, New York-based multidisciplinary artist. A self-taught artist, she works primarily in oil paint, pastels, soft sculpture, and video. She is inspired by the world-building of Florine Stettheimer and Lewis Carroll, the theatrical arts, lyric poetry, french literature, her catholic upbringing, body horror, and the rococo period. Her work is visceral, as in pink for flesh and red for blood, as in decadence of excess but also of decay and decomposition. Whether in paint, pastel or wool felt, her textures are simultaneously viscous and diaphanous. While her paintings are steeped in narrative, she plays with abstraction to create sinister landscapes that are always swirling, deteriorating and melding—a nod to hyperspace, virtual realities, and the architecture of cathedrals arching towards heaven.
