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The exhibition Tired Illusions includes paintings and three-dimensional works from the artist’s series that explore the constantly shifting complexities of interpersonal relationships. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Greece and the culmination of her three-week long residency at Dio Horia in September 2024.
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Since 2020, American artist Katelyn Ledford has worked on a series of allegorical portraits that use trompe-l’oeil and photorealism to address the performative aspect of social exchanges within the art world. She conveys these entanglements through the lens of a woman and visual artist. Specifically, Ledford aims to address authenticity and truthfulness between herself and her viewer and uses various art historical tropes towards this goal. Though not directly political, Ledford’s work is also a reaction to the current political and economic climate around the world.
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In Katelyn Ledford’s exhibition Tired Illusions, clowns, gloves, candles, bubble wrap and text stand as mementos of drama that invite the viewer in to revel and analyze along with her. The choice of an earth toned color palette and the depiction of only the reverse of historical paintings (alas the hidden part of the canvas) opens a door to her audience to experience a secret dimension of the art world that is more honest. The good thing is, that the artist provides multiple sources of light within the artworks as tools to look closely, so that all may experience the true sentiments underneath the various tired illusions.
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Katelyn Ledford | Tired Illusions: In Tired Illusions, Katelyn Ledford’s still life subjects trek the globe for authenticity and truthfulness in the 21st Century.
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