Group Exhibition: Holly Coulis, Nevine Mahmoud and Christina Ramberg

Description

Holly Coulis, Nevine Mahmoud and Christina Ramberg, who work in painting, sculpture and drawing respectively, transform traditional, art-historical subject matter often through an exuberant sense of individualism, opening interpretations of the human body and domestic objects to new possibilities.

Coulis’ still life paintings are infused with a pop sensibility, with pared down objects reduced to their geometric forms, displayed according to a Cubist perspective. Mahmoud’s sculptures erotically make an explicit connection between body and household object, rendering breasts and tongues in non-malleable glass and stone. Ramberg’s drawings depict torsos restructured by corsets, tangles of hair, the female figure, showing an acute awareness of how garments transform women’s bodies in relation to painterly abstraction.