Somaya Critchlow: Paintings the founder and designer of

the founder and designer of the cult Japanese label

twinning and intertwining bodies

Published by Lang Books

about two best friends

the images are the product of the most extreme experiments in art as life

Somaya Critchlow: Paintings the founder and designer ofSomaya Critchlows canvases and sketchbooks log an ongoing process of world building. The artist fashions these realms by drawing upon her expansive knowledge of picture making traditions ranging from the Renaissance to the Rococo. In charting the ever expanding dimensions of this female dominated universe, Critchlow casually disarms the distinctions that inform concepts of high and low culture by uncovering the ways in which class and racial