Kate Meissner (b. 1995, California) paints figures refracted through luridly seductive and grotesque fantasies. Her paintings explore how the uncanny is manifested in the construction of the human body and how manipulation of these arousing, uncanny forms can turn the desirable into something more uncomfortably incongruous. Color and surface are heightened, producing a response that hovers between attraction and anxiety. She conflates flesh with paint, dissecting and ultimately subverting both normative bodies and straightforward realism.