Too Pink - Acrylic on Canvas 35.5'' x 35.5'' niki.b’s comic book-inspired acrylic works on canvas approach their subject from unique and enlightening points of view. She makes use of the strong colors and textures of modern graphic design as a means of displaying her equally passionate love for American popular culture, especially tailfins and gleaming bumpers. She also takes Roy Lichtenstein’s use of the comic book panel one step further and portrays original characters musing upon specific moments of decision. Whether these moments are important or trivial, harmless or devious, we have no idea. The vital point is that niki.b is presenting to us these very human moments in an instant of her subjects’ lives. Another aspect of niki.b’s distinctive style is her choice of placing various philosophical thoughts inside animals’ heads. The aesthetic conceit of discussing ideas about human nature and the human condition by giving the thoughts to nonhuman characters is a long tradition in the arts. niki.b has added a sharp-edged humor and pathos to that tradition. Growing up under Communism as she did, niki.b valued the visual arts, especially those which could improve her feelings about herself and her life. She has given her anxieties over to her animal subjects, and in doing so, sheds new light on eternal issues of self-worth, honesty and the capacity for enlightenment.

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