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Jesse Mockrin\u2019s exhibition \u201cPleasures of Dance<\/a>\u201d opens tonight at New York\u2019s Nathalie Karg Gallery; her work is on display through December 18. Mockrin\u2019s paintings borrow liberally, and often directly, from the late Baroque period; her work is\u00a0people with androgynes in rococo dress. \u201cI think one of the things that drew me to Rococo is the fluidity of gender,\u201d Mockrin told<\/em>\u00a0T\u00a0Magazine<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year<\/em>.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s that slippage.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

In an essay accompanying the exhibition, Edward Sterrett writes, \u201cNo one has asked with such insistent perspicacity why it is that in the painting of the high rococo, such a convoluted profusion of voluminous taffeta, of patterned damask, of coy, porcelanite thighs, is punctuated with a seemingly endless series of little side tables, shelves, and ottomans, jabbing awkwardly into the geometry of the room, tilting it outward so that the stray ribbon or rose that inevitably spill off their edges, appear as though tumbling off the pages of an open book.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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English Tea<\/i>, 2016, oil on linen, 37″ x 25″<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Suitor\u2019s Visit<\/i>, 2016, oil on linen, 37″ x 25″<\/p><\/div>

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Before the Ball<\/i>, 2016, oil on linen, 37″ x 25″<\/p><\/div>

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The Visit Received<\/i>, 2016, oil on linen, 37″ x 25″<\/p><\/div>

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The Picnic<\/i>, 2016, oil on linen, 37″ x 25″<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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