Kitty Chrystal

This series of paintings explores femme bodies through power, distortion, and excess. Figures extend into impossible anatomies, ride bare on highways, and gather in pairs or groups that feel at once intimate and theatrical. The works exaggerate high femme aesthetics through costume, curves, and slick surfaces, presenting not passivity but agency, desire, and refusal.

My practice has long been concerned with the queer gaze, with how bodies coded as too visible or too sexual can be reimagined as sites of resistance. Here, I turn to camp as a strategy of amplification, pushing femininity until it becomes unruly and strange. Rather than flattening the figures into symbols, I let them remain slippery and alive, complicit and knowing.

These works imagine community formed through excess and eroticism, through gestures that refuse respectability. They celebrate the possibility of myth-making and kinship in bodies that embrace their own abundance.