The Really Cool Collection
Really Cool Art is a growing collection of established and up & coming artist mostly focused on contemporary art with an infusion of some more traditional art.
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Artist: Ivy Haldeman
Ivy Haldeman explores gender norms and power dynamics in her paintings of vacant business suits and portraits of sexy, anthropomorphic hot dogs that stretch the limits of their encasings. At once absurd and disarmingly familiar, Haldeman’s canvases of mass-produced food follow the Pop art tradition of artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg, while her muted palette and strong outlines evoke the aesthetics of mid-century graphic advertising. Her lines are also inspired by Japanese prints, in particular the works of 18th-century artist Kitagawa Utamaro. Haldeman’s peach-toned pinups, such as Close Up, Shadow Touches Lips, Finger Tip to Frame, Heel Up (2019), have been exhibited in solo shows at Downs & Ross gallery, and her works are in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art and Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. She prepares her canvases using a base of multiple layers of titanium white in order to endow her paintings with an opaque and reflective brightness.