Peregrine Honig's 'Player' Gets Personal

Kansas City's most successful artist debuts her latest work that's probably over the head of our blog community . . . However, this EXCEPTIONAL write-up offers insight into the effort in order to prevent your lady friend from explaining it to you.

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She’s generally had a solo artist exhibition every few years, and this upcoming one, Player, is her most personal project so far.

“It’s my most emotional body of work to date for sure,” says Honig. “It’s not coquettish. I’m not looking over my shoulder—I’m looking directly in the face of the person who’s looking at it.”

Player consists of seven 6×9 foot oil paintings that portray life-size fairytale and mythical characters framed by pigment-layered backgrounds to create the appearance of theatrical sets. The characters depicted in the paintings and the audience are players being played, hence the title of the exhibition.

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Peregrine Honig's art show Player is her most personal artistic endeavor yet

Points and Thorns // Peregrine Honig Peregrine Honig has worn a lot of hats over the years, from being the artistic director of the West 18th Street Fashion Show for 20 years, to co-owning Birdies lingerie, to writing the film Summer in Hindsight-the list goes on.

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