Tiger Ma and Cuddle Cubs, 2022
Medium

Oil Paint


Dimensions

182.9 x 121.9 cm


Year Created

2022

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Large > 80cm
Portrait orientation
Painting
Conceptual
Animals

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Trulee Hall gathers the myopic histories of her individual mediums, the funny camp quality of craft coupled with desire, pop spirituality, sex, “inappropriateness”—and creates a world where there is no embarrassment in pleasure, no middlebrow finger-wagging, just the push and pull of the picture giving way to other acts: plucking, sucking, gyrating, licking… there doesn’t have to be so many fences between painting and film and sculpture. We can make them all inform one another. We have the technology. Trulee’s work often starts with a painting that then acts as a storyboard for a film. Parts of the films give way to animations, CGI and stop-motion, before coming back to live-action, often with singing and dancing, always with a musical score composed by the artist. Props from the films lead double-lives as sculptures. Actors lead double lives as characters. A set of giant boobs leads a double life as disco balls. She has her colors. She has goddesses. She makes the background dance. This show purposefully mines the gold of new-age clichés, twisting them to funnier and juicier effect. A suite of paintings plays with the forced fantasy relationships we bestow upon animals, the unspeakable subtexts coming out to sun themselves. My favorite is the mermaid on the couch whose fishtail doesn’t even cover her pasty human ass. It’s like being mooned by mother nature. In the next room, an ensemble of tiger paintings depict the sexy beast in equivocal positions with sexy blue-hued women. Each is accompanied by a video. The image of the painting is recreated with live actors. The actors are painted to match the hyperreal colors of the painting. Costume rubber-tongues and paper-mache tiger heads and the incredible, particular bodies of her collaborators bring the images to something more saturated than life. — Christina Catherine Martinez _Acrylic, oil, and collage on canvas with wood frame_

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Trulee Hall’s work presents a surreal geography drawing on motifs of the domestic, the decorative, and the erotic. The artist’s creative practice spans video, sculpture, painting, audio composition, and choreographed dance. Hall integrates these mediums into immersive installations. These vignettes offer multiple representations of a non-narrative visual subject, replayed through painting, sculpture, and video amalgams of CGI, claymation, and live action performance.

Curriculum Vitae

Born in 1976.

Education
1999 · Atlanta College of Art

B.F.A.

2006 · CalArts

M.F.A.

Solo Exhibitions
2022

Old and New Dreams

2022

AHAN Studio Forum

2021

All Tomorrow's Parties

2022

Lynchland

2021

Psychosomatic

2022

Ladies’ Lair Lake

Group Exhibitions
2022

Old and New Dreams

2022

AHAN Studio Forum

2021

All Tomorrow's Parties

2022

Lynchland

2021

Psychosomatic

2022

Ladies’ Lair Lake

Achievements

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2+ Degrees
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