Elizabeth Tremante: FINAL GIRLS
1207 N La Brea Ave, Inglewood, CA 90302, USA
Saturday, January 4 at 3:00 PM 6:00 PM
Ends Feb 8, 2025
Steeped in horror, literature and satire, and an insistence on drawing, FINAL GIRLS builds a world where vulnerable teens, women, children, and parents are unwittingly locked in mortal combat with the violent forces of art history. The curated exhibitions depicted in Elizabeth Tremante's paintings contain her doctored versions of existing masterworks, calibrated to elucidate new interpretations. The relationships between the artworks and the people who populate the galleries mirror the overlapping realities of pregnancy, violence and vulnerability in both historical and contemporary political environments.  Tripping and falling into the fantastical space of the paintings, Tremante delights in concocting the sticky frictions that happen when humor interrupts the madness and monumentality of art history.  Drifting on an axis from panic to exuberance, the figures in Tremante’s paintings shimmer with an ungoverned spirit of another kind: they vomit, bleed, weep, conspire, play, read and dream in the types of art spaces that demand silent reverence.