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All My Pretty Follies
This painting, part of a series, depicts a kitten meticulously rendered in graphite with a fluorescent pink glow of acrylic paint surrounding it. The words "All my pretty follies"—part of a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay written on the back of the canvas—are painted in the same pink across it in what looks almost like a computer font, creating a juxtaposition between the physical and digital. And in fact, the artist created a digital video work by the same name as a companion to the painting.
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Artist, writer and activist Mieke Marple’s work investigates narrative and sexuality through a feminist lens—exploring both social issues and their emotional resonances. The artist’s paintings feature a neon palette and repurpose older European imagery while speaking to the 21st-century femme experience. Marple’s work explores the undoing of millennia-old patriarchal ideology in the contemporary moment.
Mieke Marple is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. Marple has exhibited internationally, including in "Techno-Healing" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb and "Elan Vital" at MOCA Westport. Recent solo exhibitions include "Tarot Reckoning" and "Bed Feminist" at Ever Gold [Projects] in SF, and "God is an Audiobook" at 1301PE in LA.
She has been written about by The New York Times, W Magazine, The Guardian, Fortune, Elle, and Autre, among other publications. She has written for The Huffington Post, Lit Hub, Zyzzyva, ArtNews, and Artsy, among others.
Through various charity art auctions, she has helped raise over a million and a half dollars for Planned Parenthood LA and a quarter million for prison abolitionist organization Critical Resistance.
She received a B.A. in Fine Art from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2008. Marple was co-founder of NFTuesdayLA and co-owner of Night Gallery from 2011-2016. She is creator of the Medusa Collection, a set of generative art NFTs reframing the Medusa myth. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Crypto Art, Seattle NFT Museum, and McEvoy Family Collection.
This painting, part of a series, depicts a kitten meticulously rendered in graphite with a fluorescent pink glow of acrylic paint surrounding it. The words "All my pretty follies"—part of a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay written on the back of the canvas—are painted in the same pink across it in what looks almost like a computer font, creating a juxtaposition between the physical and digital. And in fact, the artist created a digital video work by the same name as a companion to the painting.More
- Unframed
- This artwork is currently on view in a special exhibition and will ship by September 8, 2023.
