Angela Strassheim at Marvelli

More or less in the order I wrote them down, my notes:

childhood, adolesence, innocense, sensuality, suburbia, nature vs artifice, staged, unnatural light, purity, temptation, Crewdson, parents, children, blondes, punishment, fathers, daughters, joy, alienation, Lolita, fourth wall, staring girls, carefree, stalking, nocturnal, cars, cruising, high school, boys, predators, vigilence, Venus, allusion, posession, freedom, independence, trapped, stasis, tender, threat, fear, anxiousness, emotional discomfort, nakedness, getting away with it, perverse attentions

Those thoughts probably are a bigger window on my own mind than Strassheim's perhaps, but the woman does seem to have some disturbing thoughts on the brain, sometimes couched in the most innocent of images.

Untitled (Hoola Hoop), 2006, Angela Strassheim

Angela Strassheim, Pause
Through Dec 2 at Marvelli Gallery
526 W 26th St, 2nd Flr
(212) 627-3363

UPDATE: Artnet weighs in with a more considered (longer) review.