JUXTAPOZ – Meghann Stephenson “I will be your mirror” @ Half Gallery, Los Angeles

Half an exhibition It will open Megan Stephenson‘s I will be your mirror On their location in Los Angeles on May 3, 2025.

The exhibition address is obtained from the classic 1967 by Velvet Underground. Niko sings, “I will be a mirror/reflect what you are/in the event that you do not know ..” in contemporary artistic circles, the same phrase is often associated with the book of Nan Golden accompanying her in the middle of the profession in the Whitney Museum of American Art, and expands on ideas about what must be seen societal. For painter Megan Stephenson, she suggests “I will be your mirror” a different perspective from the reflection to explore the risks of childhood and misunderstanding in self -reporting. When drilling with teenagers’ residue about personal discomfort and loss of innocence, Stephenson tries to sort through all the repetitions that we turn into the admission name. “You can feel lonely in particular,” she said, so you make the best parts of yourself smaller, and all the worst great enough to be a shield. You become a lamb in wolf clothes. “

In the midst of this experiment, Stephenson, we all in Wonderland, believed very large for our homes, but it is very small to reach the key on the table that provides the only way out. Through paintings such as “a sheep in wolf clothes”, a tense image of a girl in a fur coat is not clear, and “you alone”, which shows a girl who is swallowed in an endless hedging maze without a visual outlet, the painter examines fears of dividing the identity and wandering the world, internally and externally. “You know me” use the surreal repetition of the same number to represent the overwhelming feeling of judgment, whether real, from others and ourselves.

Within this group of work, we find echoes of John Corin, Marcel Dushamps, Godth Leicester, France Halls, Sofia Coppola, Deborah Terpeville and even Edwire Miberbridge. Stefenson admits that the phone game plays with the history of art in the hope of discovering new borders, and admits that the mirror itself is somewhat a black hole- this paper of net glass installed on black ground has a polarized effect that reflects an inverted image of the viewer. Science and emotions behind this exchange are part of magic and madness to reveal distortion that we are witnessing as a reality.