May 04, 2000 — June 03, 2000 76 Grand Street, New York Kurt Kauper's Diva Fictions are paintings of imaginary Opera Divas. Kauper uses the vernacular of painterly realism to create an entirely invented, or artificial person: a person who has never existed but appears to have a personal history as real and verifiable as that of the viewer looking at the painting. The exhibition featured the final four paintings in Kauper's series of fourteen Diva Fictions. The series is a visual record of an invented history. Kauper describes his Diva Fictions as occupying a place somewhere between realism and artificiality. It is in this ambiguous territory that their symbolic power is most resonant. More information about: Kurt Kauper