Fragments of Jen

Comment

Comment by Resident Curator on May 2, 2014 at 10:22pm

Curator’s Comments:

 

Fragments of Jen appears to be a working piece in progress, simply tacked to the studio wall.  The multi-part sectioning of paper and loose physical construction with leftover masked tape marks imparts a process oriented characteristic to the work. While the white seams where the four individual paper sections come together may not originally have been part of the formal decision making, I like the cubistic division of the organic figurative form. It is both smartly decisive and random. The calligraphic black contour lines around the body also nicely balance the more rigidly imposed structure.  The previous figure painting, Grey Nude, in many ways looks more finished and polished.  But the negation of the lower torso and legs with opaque grey pigment provides an unusual and vaguely unsettling quality. I find the cool grey tonality to be neutral and unyielding against the warmer gestural figurative areas. But the small bits of red color at the bottom of the picture plane also suggest the full image still lies underneath, and the grey veil could readily be lifted as easily as it was applied.