Chicago-Based Artist Tessa Perutz Paints People as if They Were Lush Landscapes—See Her Otherwordly Work Here

As galleries around the world begin to slowly reopen, we are
focusing on exhibitions at spaces that are now receiving
public visitors. Check out this show at a newly reopened gallery
below.

“Tessa Perutz: Homme Allongé”
Through July
5 at Ballon Rouge Collective, Brussels

What the gallery
says: “Tessa’s fragmented and often Fauvist landscapes
depict colors dancing in form as if in a hallucination. Recently
she has started to portray the body itself as a landscape,
depicting human curvature in mirroring peaks, fields, and valleys.
In this way, she is referencing another tradition as steadfast as
the landscape, in looking to the reclining figure.

She mixes paint with sand, and integrates
lavender flowers into canvas and paper works as well. Inherently,
Tessa’s works are not only visually stimulating but also tactile
and sometimes olfactible. While the colors are supra-natural, the
visuals and scents are of the earth.”

Why it’s worth a look: The itinerant
Ballon Rogue Collective opens pop-up exhibitions around the world,
from London to Los Angeles and everywhere in between. The
collective was meant to kick off the summer season with a
group show in Istanbul titled “Body,” but the shutdown threw that
out the window.

Never ones to simply give up, the collective’s members opted to
present individual shows by artists who would have been on display
together at a storefront in Brussels, where the collective is
based. In the first iteration, Chicago native Tessa Perutz’s works
evoke the silhouettes of Tom Wesselmann—though in Tessa’s case, she
is co-opting the male gaze, and turning it back on itself.

What it looks like:

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