P·P·O·W is pleased to present a one-person exhibit of new paintings by Katharine Kuharic, consisting of 10 new oil paintings, a selection of watercolors, and silver point drawings. The title of the exhibition not only describes the artist's obsession with her prize bulldogs, but the many types of woman depicted in her equally obsessive paintings. Kuharic's paintings are hyper-controlled tableaus that exist outside of a narrative framework. In each painting a cast of characters stand out graphically against a highly colored monochromatic background. The characters, often women, seem cast from a Fellini film or a stock selection of female stereotypes. However, the sources are usually friends, people spotted on the street, magazine ads, and anatomy texts. Children often appear, as both innocent and alarmed, somehow knowledgeable of their eventual progress toward adulthood. The background colors are chosen for their connotations, for example: lesbian lavender, cow-piss yellow or Tiffany blue.