VIVIEN GREVEN FINESSES NYC

Renowned German-based artist Vivian Greven creates mesmerizing multimedia paintings and unique montages, featuring large-scale flawless figures while exploring the connection and intimacy between individuals in both physical and idealistic ways. At NYC’s Lower East Side Perrotin Gallery, founded by French gallerist Emmanuel Perrotin, Greven showcased her newest paintings as part of the ‘When The Sun Hits The Moon’ exhibit.

Her debut solo exhibit is a tour de force featuring Greco-Roman figures, ethereal abstractions, and vivid compositions. Greven moves among genres, deriving her ideas from mythological tales to modern fairy tales, with a laser focus on the essence of human connection and intimacy. She blurs the lines between neoclassical sculpture, digital imagery, human bodies, intimate relationships, and the past and future.

Standout pieces include a close-up of a kiss, the back of a woman in a gilded gold bathing suit, and the sunny yellow hue of leggings accentuating subtle details. These works exude a powerful presence, making you wonder if they are real or avatars.

Her work is gorgeous, ominous, wondrously strange, and can evoke sensations of mysterious connection, surprise, and delight. We are enchanted by dreamy vivid forms, meticulously outlined silhouettes, and the airbrushed effects of Greven’s oils and acrylics.

The luminous palette, drawn from the sun and the moon, evokes a sense of wonder and intrigue. Go and check it out yourself.

 Images courtesy of Perotin and the artist