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. ...

C L E A R I N G is a contemporary art gallery based in New York, Los Angeles and Brussels. The gallery was founded in 2011, with the focus of showing emerging art. It now represents over 20 living artists, providing many of them - such as Harold Ancart, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chase Hall, Calvin Marcus and Marina Pinsky - with their first gallery exhibition. The gallery also represents the estates of Eduardo Paolozzi, Bruno Gironcoli and René Heyvaert. C L E A R I N G supports its artists by producing works, exhibitions and books, as well as working closely with public and private institutions. ...