Frustration. Anger. Resentment. Confusion. These are just some of the emotions that suffuse Karen Parker’s World. In his new exhibit, Douglas Kolk creates a personalized narrative of a young person’s struggle to come to terms with her sense of selfhood. Long concerned with the questions of identity, Kolk’s mixed media collages and paintings have attempted to portray the modern individual’s confusion with finding his or her own place within the world.

At Arndt und Partner gallery in Berlin, Kolk was given a freedom to experiment with new media. His single brushstroke wall portraits of young women, such as Rapunzel, function as a reflection of a young woman’s hauntingly hollow perception of self. However, it is really only with a series of sculptures, the artist’s first, that one really gets a sense of Karen Parker’s confusion. Simply entitled Karen Parker, one sculpture is of a young woman wearing a mask, in a state of undress. Perpetuating the sense of a non-existent sense of identity, the sculpture seems like an accurate depiction of a depressed woman.

Venturing through the gallery rooms will take you to the extremes of your emotional landscape and will leave you questioning your sense of self and the social constructs that have allowed the development of an entire generation of confusion.

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