No more wild ones by Amanda Rhodenizer

Amanda Rhodenizer’s art show “No more wild ones” opens Friday, April 4th from 8-11pm, at Green Room (5386 St. Laurent) in Montreal

[...] No More Wild Ones consists of a series of acrylic paintings that contain certain absences, displaced animals and elements which may cause your consumerist impulses to irk. Her works appear to critique a lack of natural elements in the modern urbanite’s (or suburbanite’s) daily life and how this loss is made up for with banal objects such as fake plants, stylish console tables, and lamps shaped like maggots. However the artist does attempt to make the audience remember their wild side by inserting animals into the imagined domesticated space of her paintings and therefore provides a certain nightmarish quality resonating from the total commodification of these nostalgic creatures. Her work demands the viewer to complete the scene or perhaps the incompleteness of them all is a reflection of the viewer’s own lack of something else that can only be compensated with one of her canvases hanging in their living room underneath a Kryssbo Ikea wall lamp. Rhodenizer’s work immediately grabs your attention and cleverly exploits your consumerist gaze in that she acknowledges your appetite to return to the wild and fulfills this void through a safe canvas that you can take home.

-Salma Shariff