The incredible Laurie Hogin has a new show at Littlejohn Contemporary in NY.

It’s a particularly colorful menagerie for Hogin, and she stays true to her signature intense and snarling hybrids.

Hogin contends that the history of European painting, since the rise of the merchant class in the 16th century, represents the history of Western attitudes towards the subjects depicted, including beauty, wealth, domestic life and romantic transcendence, as well as human dominion over nature. These attitudes persist, even as our means of representing them has expanded, and are part of our daily cultural currency. –Source

Her bunnies are always among my favorite; silent, seething creatures boiling beneath the surface with decidedly non-lagomorphic rage.

Hogin’s paintings are deliciously vibrant and fierce, with life bursting at the seams of traditional realism.

Check out some of her past work on her website and the current exhibit here.

PS I hope these art posts are not getting lost in the shuffle. I like to inject a little regular SheWalksSoftly fare into the Holiday Horrors.