Lola Reed is a 22-year-old painter currently pursuing her BFA at the California College of Arts. She has been living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area for her entire life.
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I am interested in the body in all of its parts. What it means to be both a body and a mind, to watch one’s flesh move independently from one's consiousness, to abject from an unescapable vessel. My work recognizes the horrors of existence and a simultaneous ability to turn toward sarcasm. I love to bounce on the tension between darkness and light: fear and confusion contrasted with humor and absurdity.
Each piece carefully renders subjects of femininity, despair, surveillance, modesty, and immodesty. Juxtaposition is a constant, framing the mundane against raw depictions of gore and violence. Heavy in symbolism and visual metaphor, each collage of surrealist imagery presents a gendered experience of bodily horror to the viewer. Subjects intertwine with ethereal femininity, digital landscapes, and suggestions of the macabre, disparate elements that evoke the violent, the unclean, the visceral.
The paintings are a deliberate attempt to provoke discomfort, adding a layer of narrative complexity that invites viewers to question their perceptions of conventional beauty and femininity. I sort through a thick sludge of media to sanctify and immortalize fleeting images of the digital landscape. My work is a product of its time, shaped by the slow festering of the modern consciousness.