The paintings for which Kelly Reemtsen is best known are elaborate depictions of the role of the modern day woman. Strikingly feminine at first glance, with their figures adorned in fashionable vintage designer dresses and runway-worthy accessories, Reemtsen’s women are not simply pinup girls or arm candy.
Rather, the women, while dressed to the nines, undertake household, and often traditionally masculine, tasks. The objects that they hold, from dishrags to wrenches to even chainsaws, range from being domestic to borderline menacing, and yet, as a body of work, answer the question as to the proper role of the contemporary woman.
Kelly Reemtsen was born in Flint, MI. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, and is included in many collections as the corporate collections of 20th Century Fox (Los Angeles) and Bon Appetite (San Francisco).
Images courtesy of Kelly Reemtsen
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