Daisy Sheff

Daisy Sheff describes her paintings as existing in the realm of “the amoral, the wild, the left-hand path”. Her fauvist orange, pink, green and purple narratives depict fairytale-like intimate portrayals of scenes full of bizarre patterns, dreamy silhouettes and expressions. The confusion of the perspective with background twisting with foreground and brightness with paleness, accentuates the imaginary space of her paintings. Such space exists within its own fantastical logic, one which embraces randomness and haphazardness. The artist, born in 1996 and based in California, develops her own language which turns the real-life origins of her paintings into the abstract eccentricity of her colour and layout. Sheff’s interest in the theatrical and folk narratives is remininest of her art historical inspirations, such as artists Roy De Forest and Florine Stettheimer. ...