Kirsten Deirup

Kirsten Deirup’s compositions centralize gem-encrusted flowers improbably sprouting from the ground or vessels and spray bottles materializing in unlikely locations. Proxying as totems, items are deliberately placed despite appearing nonsensical. There is an encroaching sense of the uncanny within Deirup’s futuristic dreamscapes. Peculiar arrangements of objects beyond the scope of their typical domain suggest a human presence despite the absence of the figure. A gloved hand masks the robot underneath, while the plastic materiality of spray bottles has been anthropomorphized. 

Kirsten Deirup (b. 1980, Berkeley, CA) graduated from The Cooper Union in 2003. She has had solo exhibitions at HESSE FLATOW, New York, NY; de boer gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY; Guild and Greyschul, New York, NY; and Rare, New York, NY. Group exhibitions include Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY; Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY; Marc Wolf Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA; Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA; and Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, CA. She has completed residencies at the Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy, the Farpath Foundation in Dijon, France, and Idlewild, CA. Her work is held in the permanent collection of MoMA, New York. She lives and works in Hudson Valley, New York.