Furusho von Puttkammer

Bio

Furusho von Puttkammer is a multimedia artist and curator based in New York City. She is the former Director of Art in Odd Places, an annual performance arts festival that takes place along the length of 14th street in Manhattan. von Puttkammer’s work has been featured in BUST Magazine, IDEAT China, and Galleria das Minas, and she has performed domestically (Stone Wall Inn, 68 Jay Street, Goldsounds, & Gallery 128) and internationally (Graz, Austria). Her paintings have been displayed internationally. She graduated from School of Visual Arts in 2018 with a Bachelors in Fine Arts. See more of her work at www.anchovyart.com

Artist Statement:

von Puttkammer’s  work explores the isolation, claustrophobia, and absurdity of, “otherness,” -as defined by Western and Asian culture - through oil painting, photoshop, and performance. von Puttkammer culls from experience as a mixed-race queer neurodivergent woman raised in middle-class suburbia to visually recreate the seething silent discomfort and the subliminal fatal positionality of those childhood memories. 

SALT & OIL (latest grouping of work) depicts pale creatures from a dark, nebulous world reminiscent of a drug den. Scenes are fashioned from a fusion of porn, historical photography, film noir, and personal saucy experiences. The depicted provocateurs seduce the viewer into profane scenarios, confusing the observer with a dichotomy of shock and intrigue. Referencing the works of Caravaggio, Robin F. Williams, Antoine D’Agata, Mr. Bean and more – the sexuality, violence, and absurdity of the work ironically challenges yet champions the viewer as voyeur.