Sentences with phrase «figure paintings expose»

Not exact matches

Because Pomerance has chosen not to paint and pad his freak literalistically, Merrick — ever in a double figure — reminds us of that «other» dimension of beauty and wholeness that is nearly absent from the broken world this play exposes.

The lubricious bodies with exposed and often enlarged genitalia, the conversational text (YES COMING TOGETHER, reads one painting, which features two figures fused in «ecstatic unity,» as she calls it), and the porous portrayal of gender are all key characteristics.

On view are four interconnected bodies of work: A Wrestling Place series — depicting two Herculean figures mid-tussle against a barren panorama; Self - Examination paintings — a wrestler's intimately folded body represented within a tensely cropped picture plane; the Wrestler suite — individual portraits of the brawling protagonists standing in profile, facing away from the viewer and exposing scuffed, bruised backs against otherworldly blue backdrops; and The Golden Age — scenes rendered in pencil on gessoed linen.