Janeckova and Miriam's Dual Exhibition in Rome

A dual exhibition in Rome brings together painters Katharina Janeckova and Jay Miriam, both born in 1988. Janeckova, originally from Bratislava and now based in Texas, presents new works that retain her wild grace with improved compositional dryness. Her iconography features amorous bears and uninhibited girls in an erotic, comical arcadia rendered in cartoonish and ancient vase styles. Miriam, from New York, offers opposite, introverted, nocturnal visions with a refined, cooled pictorial syntax that often results in bidimensional outcomes referencing modernism, creating a sense of immobile temporality. Critic Pericle Guaglianone compares Janeckova to van Gogh and Miriam to Gauguin. The exhibition is covered by Artribune's weekly column 'Incanti' on the art market.