Melding surrealism with the sublime, Marlene Mocquet drips her canvases in oils, acrylics and gouache, creating an effect equal parts ethereal, warped and fantastic. Each disparate picture registers as a character within a greater aesthetic alphabet that Mocquet employs to describe an absurd microcosm of players and scenes.

Mocquet's art work has a lot of references to the art movement in the beginning 20th century. Her work has been related to artists Paul Klee (in his early career) and Max Ernst in her affinity for symbols and otherworldly stand-ins. The aesthetic qualities of Klee's almost primitive early drawings and paintings appear in delicate ways throughout Mocquet's arrangements.

The artist is a recent graduate of the School of the Fine Arts of Paris. She has exhibited internationally, presenting her work at Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, and recently exhibiting nearly 20 new works at the Freight and Volume Gallery in New York City.

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Marlene Mocquet
Le flutiste, 2008
Mixed media.
195x130cm