Nach Bildern — Painted from Pictures

Solo exhibition at Thomas Fischer Gallery, January 2024

Items for sale are photographed for secondhand marketplace listings. This mostly amateur, classified photography is a language in itself, a vernacular and virtual gallery of poses, lighting, details and abstractions that have collective and specific meaning. The photographs that pedestal the objects for sale, while pragmatic, meet along vectors of seduction and vectors of value. Painting from these photos is an attempt to study their particular language, conventions, and the transmission of desire. “Painted from Pictures” is Leanne Shapton’s first exhibition in Germany.

70s Black Ruched Bathing Suit, ink on canvas, 9x12, 2020
Ceramic Rabbit Tureen, house paint on panel, 10x8, 2021
Sculpture, house paint on panel, 8x10, 2020
Sweatpants, house paint on panel, 8x10, 2023
Omega Pottery in the V&A, house paint on panel, 8x10, 2010
Fawn Kid Gloves, house paint on panel, 8x10, 2020
1950s Pastel Blue Tailored Skirt, acrylic on canvas, 9x12, 2020
Vintage High Waist Panties II, acrylic on Canvas, 8x10, 2020
Antique Cloth Doll, ink on canvas, 9x12, 2020
Pair Antique Staffordshire Dogs, ink and acrylic on canvas, 10x10, 2020
Vintage 1950s Paper Mache Cat Puppet, house paint and acrylic on panel, 10x10, 2020