The Potentially NSFW Lauren Rinaldi

'Portrait' at @paradigmgs opens in less than 2 weeks and I finished my final piece for it today and I am so ready for a beer or ten 🙌🏽🍻 #painting #portrait #legs #oilpainting #cat

A photo posted by Lauren Rinaldi (@laurinaldi) on Apr 11, 2016 at 12:35pm PDT

Philadelphia artist Lauren Rinaldi, in a move that would make her unique even if it was just the unheard-of clarity in her own artist's statement alone, says it best: Her work "inhabit[s] the space where the line between sexual empowerment and objectification is blurred."  But also in that liminal zone, there's fun, sorrow, and your own gaze that seems to jump in flash-motion from the Renaissance to 70s skin mags and back again. Rinaldi's work is showing all over town this spring, as in the Portrait show at Paradigm Gallery & Studio, opening this Friday.