The artwork features a striking portrait with bold contrasting colors and textures. The composition centers on the subject's face, which is partially obscured by a blindfold and scarf, creating a sense of mystery and concealment. The use of shiny, silvery fabric adds a dramatic, almost surreal quality to the piece. The subject's intense gaze and vivid red lips suggest a powerful and emotive expression, hinting at a narrative or meaning beyond the surface. The artwork's striking visual style and evocative subject matter reflect the artist's skilled command of realist painting techniques and their exploration of themes related to identity, vulnerability, and the human condition. ...
Brittany Shepherd examines private and public spaces, desire, and identity, exploring how individuals navigate visibility and concealment. Drawing from personal experiences and niche online cultures, her work confronts the complex dynamics of voyeurism, intimacy, and social performance. She invites viewers into a dialogue about perception and vulnerability, where boundaries between observer and participant begin to blur. Her paintings are known for their photo-realistic detail, capturing intimate moments that blur the line between observer and participant. Her use of materials like latex, metal, and PVC adds tactile depth and symbolic weight, emphasizing themes of masking, protection, and exposure. By integrating semi-autobiographical elements and layered narratives, Shepherd creates immersive environments that challenge traditional boundaries between artist, subject, and viewer. Her multidisciplinary approach reflects a deep engagement with the fluidity of identity and the tensions inherent in contemporary social spaces. ...
Conditions began as Bonny Poon in 2017, Paris. Located on the 26th floor of a brutalist residential tower in the 13e, the gallery was co-founded by Nathaniel Monjaret (Marbriers 4, Geneva) and artist Bonny Poon.
Since 2023, the gallery is known as Conditions and is based out of Toronto’s Chinatown, while operating internationally. From the outset, Bonny Poon has striven to highlight the conditions that make art—from its production to sale—possible.
Beyond the art on display, we foreground the history of our artists' attitudes, positions, and networks. We have presented the Parisian and Canadian debut of many intergenerational artists and cultural figures, emerging and established.
As a gallery and an auto-fiction, we support transgressive artists and critical experiments. We mine the backstage, backroom working relations that unfold between our artists, clients, critics, and dealers—a parade of economic reality, a lasting dream of community. ...
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