Stephanie Têtu - 'Parade' Catalogue

Stephanie Têtu, Pinstripes (2017), Oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm

PARADE STEPHANIE TÊTU 8 - 25 NOVEMBER 2017

PARADE STEPHANIE TÊTU PREVIEW CATALOGUE Opening Night: Wednesday 8 November 2017, 6 - 8pm 8 - 25 November 2017, Tue-Sat 10am-5pm 76 Paddington St Paddington NSW 2021 RSVP 02 9660 7799 Stephanie Têtu is a Canadian artist that burst on to the Sydney art-scene with her majestic oil paintings of flora. Têtu's latest body of work Parade draws inspiration from her experience in the fashion industry, as both a model and makeup artist. She carefully considers composition and lighting to create a sense of drama as well as delicacy. Like fashion models on a runway her flowers emanate power and sensuality.

Stephanie Têtu on her work:

“With this latest body of work, I have sought to create mysterious creatures, both uncompromising and charismatic. I am channeling the top models of the 80’s, but also the modern cult of beauty. I want my flowers to look like those front row cool influencers.

I’m often asked why I paint flowers as a subject, as they are so feminine and traditional. I find flowers fascinating. Like faces, they are forever changing; no two the same. I love their mathematical complexities, but also their fluidity. They are both technically challenging and forgiving.

Flowers are sexy and beautiful. They wilt and degenerate, as do we, thus a reminder of the fleeting nature of life.”

Parade showcases Stephanie Têtu's incredible eye for detail and composition. It is a seductive body of work that demonstrates her ability to closely capture the ephemeral beauty and fragility of flowers.

Parade opens on Wednesday 8 November 2017, 6 - 8pm, and runs until Saturday 25 November 2017.

STEPHANIE TÊTU Stephanie Têtu (b. 1967 - ) is an emerging artist who originates from Montreal, Canada. Nowadays Têtu is based in Sydney where she burst onto the art scene with majestic oil paintings of flora, having been included in several well received solo and group exhibitions over the last few years.

Active in the world of styling and fashion, Stephanie Têtu is an autodidact with regards to the visual arts scene - however not without merit. She is constantly exploring colour and shape, bringing the viewer a sense of intimacy and enchantment with her thoughtful and figurative studies. She manages to closely capture the ephemeral beauty and fragility of flowers and create a sense of drama as well as delicacy, a skill that belies her relatively young artistic career.

Stephanie Têtu: “I love painting flowers, they symbolise sex and femininity, the cycles of life. Viewing them in large scale, you can’t deny their fleshiness. You discover intimate details revealed in their full splendour.”

Her work is reminiscent of the highly sought-after flower paintings by the acclaimed American figurative pop-artist Alex Katz (b. 1927), showing realist and close-up depictions of bright coloured floral subjects, often placed against a neutral monotonous background. However, where Katz’s themes are stylised and breathe a sense of optical systemization, Stephanie Têtu’s realist depictions of flowers are placed in the perspective realm, rendered with meticulous eye for details. As she mentions herself: "They are more like portraits than just plain flower paintings, they tell a life story in all their blemishes, bruises and scars”.

Stephanie Têtu has seen her works widely collected in important private collections throughout the country. She is driving her beautiful and appealing aesthetic to see greater institutional inclusion and has earmarked the significant domestic set prizes toward the immediate future.

Artist Stephanie Têtu

Waterlily (2014) Oil on canvas 102 x 151cm

No Shrinking Violet (2017) Oil on canvas 150 x 150cm

Little Brunette (2017) Oil on canvas 100 x 100cm

Little Black Dress (2017) Oil on canvas 100 x 100cm

Poppies from above (2017) Oil on wooden box 30 x 40 cm

Magnolia Sunset (2014) Oil on wooden box 40 x 30 cm

Poppies in the front (2017) Oil on wooden box 30 x 40 cm

Pinstripes (2017) Oil on canvas 100 x 100cm

Mysterious Muse (2017) Oil on canvas 100 x 100cm

Frills (2017) Oil on canvas 100 x 100cm

Gardenia (2017) Oil on canvas 150 x 150cm

Black Iris (2017) Oil on canvas 151 x 151cm

Succulent (2017) Oil on canvas 150 x 150cm

Vader (2017) Oil on canvas 160 x 140cm

Iris the Style Icon (2017) Oil on canvas 180 x 200cm

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