Art Reception for Sandra Brekke

Description:
The Manic Pixie Dream Girl exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive artists to teach broodingly soulful young men (and women) to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures. My collection of work touches on the idealistic (beauty) standards that are attributed to all women due to this phenomenon.

"Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's lookin' for my own peace of mind; don't assign me yours." - Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Bio:
As a recent...

Artist statement/bio: Beauty and decay, lightness, darkness, lightness, images etched onto the insides of eyelids, glimpses of a dream, a waking nightmare, a lucid memory, the smog of nostalgia clouding reality. My own world. I am present as I am. I hold the balance.

I work in mixed media, primarily utilizing drawing and painting to create moody atmospheric portraits of feelings, inklings and tendencies. Much of my work is figurative though not always in a literal sense. Everything is a portrait. Everything holds energy, has a history, makes some kind of impact on the beholder, be it profound, or...