Opener 7
Julia Jacquette: I Dreamt

Wedding dresses, cakes, and flowers; cropped images of women’s manicured hands, hearty main courses, hors d’oeuvre platters, and luscious desserts shine from within Julia Jacquette’s glossy enamel-on-wood paintings. Cinematic details such as animated interactions between mothers and daughters, embracing couples, and fluttering eyelashes were juxtaposed with Pop-inspired food imagery layered with suggestive text for an exhibition that explored the anticipation and anxiety surrounding desire. The paintings on view stylistically resembled optimistic post-war era magazine illustrations, but beneath Jaquette’s polished renderings lays a critique of middle class Americana and its cultural reproduction through advertising.