Marion Peck — Animals: Recent Paintings

Marion Peck
Horsey, 2012
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches

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Meet the weird and wonderful menagerie of Marion Peck...

Earning a BFA and studying on two different MFA courses clearly gave Marion Peck a love of the old masters. It’s from this bottomless well of creativity that she has drawn inspiration for Animals: Recent Paintings, on display at Los Angeles’ Michael Kohn Gallery.

Peck’s particular style in this collection is a blend of Renaissance realism and pop-arty surrealism, riffing on or subverting painterly masterpieces with an injection of humour through the anthropomorphisation of her characters or their cross-breeding with more contemporary peers; see for example Wabbit, her take on Albrecht Durer’s 1503 hare portrait spliced with the DNA of a certain Disney bunny.

It’s a mixture of technique and tomfoolery that is disarming and charming, the expertly realised landscapes and vegetation surrounding bug-eyed and buck-toothed beasts, some gazing stoically, others letting their emotions show in human expressions of sorrow. Enjoy this peculiar safari until 27th April at the Beverly Boulevard venue.

Animals: Recent Paintings, Marion Peck

Marion Peck
Sick Kitten, 2012
Oil on canvas
24 x 32 inches

Animals: Recent Paintings, Marion Peck

Marion Peck
Wabbit, 2012
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches

Animals: Recent Paintings, Marion Peck

Marion Peck
Bum Rat, 2012
Oil on canvas
12 x 9 inches

Animals: Recent Paintings, Marion Peck

Marion Peck
Sad Pig, 2013
Oil on canvas
9 x 12 inches

Animals: Recent Paintings, Marion Peck

Marion Peck
Dead Bird, 2012
Oil on canvas
17 x 23 inches

Animals: Recent Paintings, Marion Peck

Marion Peck
Fish and Bird, 2012
Oil on canvas
11 x 14 inches

Animals: Recent Paintings, Marion Peck

Marion Peck
Hamster in the Grass, 2012
Oil on canvas
12 x 12 inches