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#Edie Fake
#painting
#plants
![geometric elements in colorful strips and flowers fit into a system of gears and belts in a painting on a black backdrop](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/fake-4.jpg)
“Bustle” (2024), acrylic and gouache on wooden panel, 48 x 48 inches. All photos courtesy of Western Exhibitions, shared with permission
In Persuasions, artist Edie Fake turns their consideration to the smart, enduring insights of crops. The brand new sequence of acrylic and gouache work expands Pretend’s daring visible language to include flowers, which they render amidst the kaleidoscopic geometries they’re recognized for. Evocative of structure and mechanics, the colourful graphic works veer into the non secular, melding the myriad techniques that order our lives.
Pretend typically begins with a meticulous sketch in graphite. Utilizing rulers and protractors, they render impeccably exact shapes that collectively, comprise a extremely engineered community of gears, bottles, and lanterns. This sequence attracts on Tarot and the diagrams of Swiss healer Emma Kunz (1892-1963), who noticed her work as solutions to bigger philosophical, non secular, and medical issues. Vines crawl up the aspect of “Theater of the Idiot” and the flowering pillars of “The Previous Preparations in a New Gentle” beam with radiant mild, seamlessly binding the botanical and the divine.
Persuasions is on view from April 12 to June 1 at Western Exhibitions in Chicago. Discover extra from the artist on Instagram.
![an abstract painting with colorful stripes and geometric elements. flowers line the left side with spiky protractors on the right](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/fake-5.jpg)
“Theater of the Idiot” (2024), acrylic and gouache on wooden panel, 48 x 48 inches
![an abstract work with colorful stripes and geometric elements](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/fake-1.jpg)
“One Factor To Match One other” (2024), acrylic and gouache on wooden panel, 36 x 36 inches
![an abstract colorful painting with a writing snack at the bottom and gears and belts interspersed throughout](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/fake-2.jpg)
“Mr. Snakes and Ladders” (2024), acrylic and gouache on wooden panel, 48 x 48 inches
![a painting with three pillars, the left and right are flowers and rays, and the center is a lantern with geometric elements. all on a black background](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/fake-3.jpg)
“The Previous Preparations in a New Gentle” (2024), acrylic and gouache on wooden panel, 36 x 36 inches
![an abstract geometric painting with floral details in the center and radial elements throughout](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/fake-6.jpg)
“Suasion” (2024), acrylic and gouache on wooden panel, 36 x 36 inches
![an abstract painting of a colorful striped lantern with a gold ring at the top](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/fake-7.jpg)
“Hurricane Lantern” (2024), acrylic and gouache on wooden panel, 16 x 12 inches
#Edie Fake
#painting
#plants
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