Colour Vomit

Colour Vomit
Mikayla Fisher and Georgia Ross
February 16-March 9, 2024

Satellite Project Space
121 Dundas St, London, ON
Wednesday-Friday 2-7pm, Saturday 12-5pm

“No one makes male Sims because they’re really boring.”

In Colour Vomit, artists Georgia Ross and Mikayla Fisher have centered their works around the feminine experience and everything it stands for; the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Although we live in a time and place where women are legally seen as equal, we still see challenges daily because of our gender. Both artists explore this disparity through an array of acrylic paintings of all different sizes and with a palette that could only be described as Colour Vomit. With these bold colours and acrylic paint, they use this medium as a way to highlight their own experiences conforming to beauty and gender standards

Referencing recent trends in sex-work and the aesthetics of “clowncore” which objectify women, Mikayla Fisher uses the clown to demonstrate the extravagant makeup and make-believe fantasies women embody online. Ironically, just as women are struggling to be taken seriously, by the patriarchy in social interactions or medical concerns, they present themselves as clowns, a joke, not to be taken seriously.

Barbie’s palette of pinks, blues and blondes is exploited in the paintings by Georgia Ross. One series shows women in the process of “getting ready”, sourced from internet videos posted by women themselves where the banality of everyday beauty routines is exposed. The other series focuses on women in media who use their power and platform to uplift the people around them.

Together, Georgia and Mikayla’s art points to their generation’s attempts to fix what stereotypes, misogyny, patriarchal issues and stigmas placed by past generations have done to our society.

Pressure to be a brand

What type of pretty are you? Fox? Cat? Bunny?

Capitalizing off of women’s insecurities

What were you wearing?

Does the curtain match the drapes?

Is it bubble gum pink?

Lipstick on a pig

Game is game

What box are you?

GYATT

WOOF