Allison Schulnik is a California artist who often includes portraits of cats in her art. Her media include porcelain ceramic sculptures, film, and "thickly impastoed" canvases.
The artist says about her household:
I have two cats, Gin and Juice. I have at least 20 portraits of Gin from the last 10 years. She is one half of twin Siamese mutt runts. She is often the punching bag for her sister, and I have always felt she needed multiple monuments to her, in canvas and clay. I have painted Juice as well, but since Juice is the all-loved charmer in life, the one with the soft fur — not coarse like Gin’s — and the one with the confident, seductive, slutty blue eyes that garners her all the petting from guests — not corneas that carry complete terror and panic in them at all times, like Gin's — and the one with a cappuccino color fade of deep brown to white, with a little Marilyn Monroe birthmark on her upper lip — not a face resembling death itself, with markings around her eyes that look skeletal, like Gin’s — I don't paint Juice as much.
Schulnik has shown her art widely at museums and galleries such as the St. Louis Contemporary Museum, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, (a Moscow venue), and Hammer Museum Flux Screenings, Los Angeles. Her show at Ziehersmith, a New York City gallery, ran from October 22 to December 17, 2011.
The artist says about her household:
I have two cats, Gin and Juice. I have at least 20 portraits of Gin from the last 10 years. She is one half of twin Siamese mutt runts. She is often the punching bag for her sister, and I have always felt she needed multiple monuments to her, in canvas and clay. I have painted Juice as well, but since Juice is the all-loved charmer in life, the one with the soft fur — not coarse like Gin’s — and the one with the confident, seductive, slutty blue eyes that garners her all the petting from guests — not corneas that carry complete terror and panic in them at all times, like Gin's — and the one with a cappuccino color fade of deep brown to white, with a little Marilyn Monroe birthmark on her upper lip — not a face resembling death itself, with markings around her eyes that look skeletal, like Gin’s — I don't paint Juice as much.
Schulnik has shown her art widely at museums and galleries such as the St. Louis Contemporary Museum, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, (a Moscow venue), and Hammer Museum Flux Screenings, Los Angeles. Her show at Ziehersmith, a New York City gallery, ran from October 22 to December 17, 2011.
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