Author: Staver, KyleThis is the first monograph on Virginia-born, New York-based artist Kyle Staver, considering her paintings, works on paper and relief sculptures from 2009 to 2024. Staver’s foreshortened paintings, often chimerical in their colour palettes and perspectives, place the viewer within the lurid, dramatic tales of Greek mythology and traditional folklore. Her three-dimensional reliefs emulate classical friezes, capturing the tension of Europa being thrown off Zeus as a bull. Despite the popularity of the source material, Staver creates new, fantastical scenes for her characters to inhabit, whether it be Artemis chatting with forest creatures around a campfire or waterfowl pecking at the drowned Ophelia on the riverbank. As Staver explains, 'there is so much expressive opportunity in the space between what is expected and what is actually there.'ISBN 9798989239818. Nino Mier Gallery. hb. 164 pages. 82 colour, 3 b/w ills. 33 x 25.4 cm.available
