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Purple Magazine
— The 30YRS Issue #38 F/W 2022

women and painting: part 2

JENNA GRIBBON

THE AMERICAN PAINTER’S LARGE-SCALE FEMALE NUDES, PORTRAITS, AND SELF-PORTRAITS DIRECTLY CONFRONT THE MALE GAZE WITH AN INTIMATE LOOK AT WOMAN-TO-WOMAN RELATIONS.

“This question implies that the medium of painting is intrinsically male and being transformed by a feminizing force. In actuality, good art employs both the masculine and feminine in tandem. It’s just that now woman-identifying artists are less invisible in their practice of the genderless alchemy of painting.”

 

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