In paintings that are as evocative in their storytelling a scenes by the Old Masters, the Polish multi-media artist Paulina Olowska unleashes the female gaze on European history, contemporary American pop culture, and motifs from fashion photography. Olowska draws inspiration from female artists of the past and her muse of the moment is the late Deborah Turbeville, who began her career as an editor at Harper’s Bazaar and evolved into a fashion photographer of mysterious historicism. Pace Gallery’s Geneva location places Olowska and Turbeville in conversation, featuring four photographs Turbeville shot for Vogue Russia in the 1990s alongside Olowska’s recent paintings of ornately dressed women in snow-covered, Eastern European landscapes. With Old World settings and vintage garments, both women invoke poignant, evergreen themes of femininity, consumerism, and time. —Lucy Horowitz
The Arts Intel Report
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
Paulina Olowska and Deborah Turbeville: Widows of the Wind
Paulina Olowska, Icy Water, 2024.
When
Nov 22, 2024 – Feb 22, 2025
Where
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Art
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Pace Gallery
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Geneva
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Gallery exhibition
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Contemporary art
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Europe
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Fashion
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Women artists
© Paulina Olowska, courtesy Pace Gallery, photography by Alina Lefa