Cornelia Renz

Cornelia Renz, born in 1966 in Kaufbeuren, Germany, is a Berlin-based artist who draws large, provocative cartoon images of chubby, exotically costumed young girls with adult characteristics of sexuality and aggression, and imagery reminiscent of Italian Renaissance masterpieces by Botticelli, Bronzino, and others. Ms. Renz draws with felt-tip markers on both sides of big sheets of acrylic glass as well as on underlying white panels, creating much linear complexity. And she encloses her pictures appropriately in clinical white plastic frames of her own devising.