size: 48" x 48" medium: acrylic, latex, ink, pastel, calk, plastic, spray paint, paper on wood panel. Originally called “Perfect Figure”, she furthers the questions that many of my pieces address: Why are people always looking for the figure in abstract painting?
In "Perfect", figures are portrayed literally. On the left, in silver and as tall as the canvas, is the large female silhouette—the sexy figure. In the blue box on the right is the male ballet dancer—a similar figure to the one in the sculpture “Monkey Bars”. These two figures claim polarities including: experience vs. innocence, unaccepted vs. accepted, female and male, eroticism vs. beauty, and effervescence vs. substance. They are both “pure” forms in the painting, painted cleanly with crisp edges, standing as form within a sea of meandering lines and concentric circles. She is slightly see-through. Like a clouded glass pane, the deeper sea is visible through her. Further away or deeper down, a larger figure is emerging behind both the sexy silhouette and the ballet dancer in the blue box. The entire painting questions our Identity with the whole versus our identity with the self.
