Jenn Mann's Adventures of the Nouveau Naturalist

Oh Dear (or should I say deer?). Jenn Mann, in her oil painting from the series "subconscious vista" (2010-11), has managed to mash all the au courant eye candy into one medium-sized canvas. Crystals, Geese, some William Morris-esque florals, and of course the models who were painted as if they were standing for hours on end, struggling through their ennui until the moment when they could ride their three-speed bicycle off into the smog-diffused sunset. This is a depiction of one hell of a cooly choreographed subconscious. It looks like an editorial for Canadian Vogue! Wait, we don't have Vogue here?

but it sure is pretty, isn't it?