The Opera Gallery
134 New Bond Street
W1
020.7491.2999
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Lori Earley, Ms. V, Oil on Board, 2009
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Opens Friday Oct 16, 2009 (5–7pm)
17 Oct 2009 – 14 Nov 2009
Mondays–Saturdays (10am–7pm)
Sundays (1–7pm)
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Tube: Bond Street, Oxford Circus
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Lori Earley's new paintings for this solo show at Opera Gallery are heirs to the historical artistic tradition of courtly portraiture, greeting Ingrès' countesses and the Medici women with a contemporary swagger. Her technically advanced, emotionally fraught style uses oils and graphite to create rich, refractive surfaces and light-filled depths out of which emerge coltish, long-limbed Goth priestesses. The pensive, pouty and self-possessed bearing of Earley's pop-culture royalty and the regal ambivalence with which they greet admirers hints at a neo-Victorian mystery and wildness lurking beneath all this hyper-stylisation and exaggerated beauty.
