Kristen Throop’s
“The Princesse: Retelling the Story of Art”

A Series by Kristen Throop

Artist’s Reception: July 2, 3-6p

Throop has been working on The Princesse for the past four years. At the project’s center is Ingres’s famous 1853 portrait of the Princesse de Broglie, which hangs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Each of the pieces in the exhibition relate to a different aspect of Ingres’s portrait, fitting together like a puzzle which then reveals a larger narrative.

During a period of reflection and questioning for Throop, Ingres’s portrait became a personal talisman, a mirror, a window and a path forward.

The Princesse aims to show art beyond the narrow confines of categorization. It is a reassertion of some of the elements which have been shed over the course of modernism which are so important Throop’s art: narrative, an assertion of meaning, a fluency of styles and the personal.

Artist’s discussions held outdoors, Saturday afternoons at 1 pm 

July 23: Let me tell you a story

August 6: How do you talk about art? Transcending the limits of modernism

August 20: The sketchbooks: Inspiration and process