Art:araki nobuyoshi,john currin,gary hume,martin kippenberger,raymond pettibon,elizabeth peyton,franz west, richard prince
The drawings of michal bendersky include portraits of pop/rock figures, and portraits taken from her personal world, such as close friend and self portraits. The portraits are the artist interpretation of visual images, existing artefacts like drawings or photographs, taken from the pop culture world. During the process the artist try to posses the image by destroying it, making it her own, charging the area between intimacy and publicity. The painting itself is a dialog between graphic and abstract drawing, while the image is a pop culture cliché and the technique used is a painting gesture cliché emphasizing the glory of melancholy.
Pavement,Sonic Youth,Pixies, The VelvetUnderground,Enon, Seafood,Yo La Tengo,The Strokes, The Libertines,The Cooper Temple Clause, Hot Hot Heat,Franz Ferdinand, Interpol,The Twilight Singers,The White Stripes NIN,Madrugada,Yeh Yeh Yeh's,The Cure, The Rapture,LCD Soundsystem,deus,kasabian ..and so on...
Alfred Hitchcock,Woody Allen,Michel Gondry,David Lynch Krzysztof Kieslowski,Harmony Korine