Jupiter 1217 71st street miami fl, 33141 April 2 - May 13, 2023
Jupiter Contemporary is pleased to present Public Displays of Affectation, a solo exhibition of new work by Brooklyn-based artist Lizzy Lunday, whose brightly hued canvases draw upon imagery from reality TV, social media, the artist’s iPhone photos, and occasionally art history to mine the tensions and contrived expressions that result from the performance of intimacy as spectacle.
Featuring eight never-before-seen paintings, all of which take the popular British TV show Love Island as subject, the exhibition showcases Lunday’s penchant for celebrity, drama, and romance—whether genuine or affected—through a style as loud and exaggerated in its choices of color and composition as the surreal conditions of the show itself. Each painting begins as a digital collage, wherein Lunday layers and manipulates scenes from the show to arrive at a fractured, composite image that somehow feels as true to (or far from) life as the individuals and interactions it portrays. Bronzed, scantily clad bodies accented by extreme highlights along their arms, legs, and abs take center stage, fawning over one another—or observing their peers with mild apathy—in a variety of intimate encounters that while suggestive of love, desire, and affection betray a certain disassociation from their own actions and from one another.