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Comment

Comment by Resident Curator on January 22, 2012 at 6:59pm

Curator’s Comment:  

 

The perplexing figure-ground relationship in these works is fresh but confounding. Palpable figurative realism- perhaps by nature of the photographic medium- is set off against a compartmentalized and fractured ground.  This figure’s gaze is slightly askew, but her right eye tries to return the uneasy focus of the viewer.  There seems to be three distinct but incongruent treatments of space in this piece alone.  The fleshly portrait emerges from a liquid haze to be broken up into flat trailing lines.  They could be read as a sort of slow motion blur- as if Peter Max met up with Muybridge.  But the crackled ground inserts another motif into the piece altogether, along with a suggestion of physical fragility.  These works are highly charged and demanding, while offering the visual enticement of a saturated color palette. While process or media may be an important part of these works, I view them primarily as paintings because of the color blocking structure.  Form and design seems to subvert an individual narrative, but the contortions of the ethereal body offer up boundless possibility and promise.